The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice.

All they wanted was the chance to shine.

Be careful what you wish for...

The first thing we asked was, Does this stuff hurt you? And they said, No. The company said that it wasn t dangerous, that we didn t need to be afraid.

As the First World War spread across the world, young American women flocked to work in factories, painting clocks, watches and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It wa... >Voir plus