You're not going to be here. tracing the course of the atomic age of human history will also lead you along a timeline of death.

There are plenty of accidents, people who got too close to radiation and paid the ultimate price for it.

Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning physicist whose work led to the discoveries of Plonium and

radium and eventually the development of x-rays, died from

apastic anemia due to the prolonged exposure to radiation.

She was known to take her work home with her, you see, carrying radioactive isotopes around in her pocket, often commenting

to friends how pretty she thought the bluish-green light the test tubes gave off looked in the dark.

Louis Sloeton, a Canadian physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project developing the first atomic

bombs was killed by a lethal dose of radiation during an experiment after his hand slipped

while using a screwdriver to separate two half spheres of beryllium around a plutonium core.

I repeat, the man died while using a screwdriver to stop a nuclear reaction between two pieces of plutonium.

Sometimes it's hard to believe the atomic bomb ever got built in the first place.

But if you look elsewhere throughout our atomic history, there are other deaths that weren't accidents at all.

People who were murdered because they knew too much. There are other deaths that weren't accidents at all.

People who were murdered because they knew too much.

Coming to you from inside my top secret nuclear fallout shelter,

I'm Nate Hale, and this is the conspirators. On the night of November 13th, 1974, a 28-year-old woman left a union meeting at the Hub

Cafe just north of Oklahoma City clutching a thick Manila folder full of documents. She got into her white Honda hatchback and headed to another meeting with a reporter at a nearby holiday inn.

She never got there.

Not long after the woman left the union meeting, police were summoned to the scene of an accident along Oklahoma State Highway 74.

The woman's car skidded off the road and smashed into the wing wall of a concrete culvert.

She died there on that lonely stretch of highway. An autopsy would later show that the woman had a large dose of narcotics in her system.

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