The federal government is finally cleaning up Robert Oppenheimer’s mess on Staten Island – 80 years later. The Army Corps of Engineers this month began removing radioactive remnants of the atomic bombs that ended World War II from a waterfront site after decades of delays, cover-ups, and buck-passing in Washington DC. “I look at this site as being the alpha of the atomic age,” said Beryl Thurman, a Staten Island environmental activist who has lobbied for the clean-up since 2001. “Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the omega, but Staten Island, in my eyes, was the beginning.” Recent soil samples taken at...