Military scientists shredded millions of pages, impeding acknowledgement of the history of human radiation experiments.

Scores of LGBTQ refugees come to San Francisco to escape threats in Latin American countries that have weak protections for ...

California courts are being sued over failure to address a court reporter shortage that has persisted a decade.

The city can’t prove it’s following a policy requiring staff to advise homeless people to separate essential items during encampment sweeps.

The California Coastal Commission approved the closure of San Francisco’s Upper Great Highway to cars so that it can become a ...

The success of the atomic bomb program deeply unnerved some of the scientists responsible. Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer’s later qualms are well known. But even before the first ...

In early 1955, San Francisco 49ers management agreed to make its players guinea pigs in a radiation experiment, according to a series of letters hashing out the “completed arrangements” between the ...

In Episode 2 of the “Exposed” podcast, we explore a little-known chapter in San Francisco’s nuclear era: human experiments carried out to assess the health effects of radiation. Scientists from the ...

The first people known to have been exposed to radiation by the U.S. Navy in San Francisco were part of an atomic cleanup crew. Wrapped in cotton overalls and clunky gas masks, with pockets sewn shut ...