Everyone has heard about the radiation deaths caused by large-scale events like Hiroshima, Chernobyl, and the tragic tales of nuclear downwinders . But smaller-scale radiation deaths have often escaped notice. Obvious events like nuclear lab accidents have exposed scientists to inordinate amounts of radiation and caused indescribable damage and pain. Other, less expected backdrops such as watch factories have delivered doses of radium exposure that brought about creeping death, one excruciating symptom at a time. There are even spy stories that lend credence to the cinematic tropes of assassination via radioactive poison delivered in a cup of tea.

Crack the veneer of these horrifying deaths, and you're bound to find a lesson in the hubris of man and the terrors of tinkering with such aw

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