Fifty years after the crash that killed Karen Silkwood on a dark stretch of Oklahoma's Highway 74, a rekindled effort to get to the bottom of her untimely death has unearthed new clues that might help ...

Karen Silkwood was either a martyr among whistleblowers and nuclear safety activists, or, if you believe her employer’s account, a lunatic who smeared plutonium on the bologna in her fridge. As a lab ...

The U.S. government will stop at nothing to prevent whistleblowers from revealing official secrets. Edward Snowden, who exposed the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs in June, is the ...

The four-part podcast unearths never-before-heard audio tapes. Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious and ...

If things had been different, Karen Silkwood would have kept that appointment with the New York Times about the alleged hazards at an Oklahoma plant. The world could have read her story and a mother ...

It's been half a century since a woman was killed in a car crash while on her way to meet with a reporter, hoping to expose wrongdoing at the nuclear plant where she was employed. That woman was Karen ...

In November 2014 we remembered Karen Silkwood, a woman who blew the whistle on Kerr McGee and its alleged unsafe practices at its plutonium plant in Crescent. She ended up dead before she could take ...

She was going to try to blow the whistle on nuclear safety, but never made it. Fifty years after the crash that killed Karen Silkwood on a dark stretch of Oklahoma's Highway 74, a rekindled effort to ...