Quaint town became 'Village of Widows' because of cancer-causing chasm

A quaint Canadian town, dubbed the 'Village of Widows', has a dark and tumultuous history linked to over 200,000 deaths.

Port Radium, Ontario is home to the Eldorado Mine, a once-plentiful source of radium that provided industry and jobs for locals. However, the once-bountiful resource quickly turned sinister as locals discovered the mined radium was used in the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

The gruesome attack claimed the lives of over 200,000 Japanese civilians and marked the first, and only, time were used in armed conflict.

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