Children of Radium Quotes

“He had also published his research at last: an article titled “Death Came from Ammendorf,” the culmination of decades of work. The essay was a compact but complete history of the site, its contaminants, its victims, and ongoing governmental failures. That his exposé had not been picked up by local”
― Joe Dunthorne, Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

“Other companies were already producing radioactive face cream, radioactive hair tonic, and an energy drink called Radithor, distilled water combined with radium-226 and -228, which was promoted as a source of “perpetual sunshine.” Even products that were not remotely radioactive—like lingerie made from “radium silk”—traded on the idea that radium was a miracle cure and the source of mysterious powers. It didn’t seem to matter that many of the pioneering radiologists—after years of unprotected contact with a range of radioisotopes—were now dying of their research.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

“the famous Berlin company, the Auergesellschaft, whose gently radioactive streetlamps gave the city its characteristic glow.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance