December 29, 2014

Background: In the early part of the twentieth century, radium was a symbol of science, medicine, and

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“Radium Women” Dial Painters: Unwitting Experimental Subjects, 1920 – 1990

December 29, 2014

The government began sponsoring total body irradiation (TBI) research in 1942 in connection with the Top Secret

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1942: Manhattan Project Nuclear Scientists Conduct Total Body Irradiation Experiments

December 29, 2014

During WWII, hundreds of scientists and technicians working to develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos were

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1945–1947: Eighteen patients were injected with plutonium in AEC experiments

December 29, 2014

An exceptionally large-scale radiation exposure experiment at Vanderbilt University was funded by the U.S. Public Health Service

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1945–1947: Vanderbilt “Nutrition Study” Exposed 820 pregnant women to radioactive iron

December 29, 2014

In December of 1993, Scott Allen, a journalist at the Boston Globe, uncovered documents showing years of

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1944–1956: Radioactive nutrition experiments on retarded children by Harvard and MIT

December 29, 2014

U.S. Air Force threw “Radiation bombs” expelled from USAF planes intentionally spread radiation to “unknown distances” endangering

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1944–1961: Nuclear Field Tests, “Radiation bombs,” Meltdowns Endangered Americans

December 29, 2014

Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. AEC issues a secret document (07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that

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1947: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission begins radioactive experiments on human subjects

December 29, 2014

Between1948–1954, 582 Baltimore school children were subjected to radiation in a federally-funded experiment whose stated intent was

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1948–1970s: Nasal Radium Irradiation (NRI) of Children at Johns Hopkins

December 29, 2014

In 1950, Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton, a top radiation biologist at the AEC, sent a memo to

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1950: Biologist Warns AEC Official, Radiation Experiments Comparable to Nazi Experiments

December 29, 2014

Dr. Lester Middlesworth of the University of Tennessee injected 7 newborn babies with radioactive iodine in an

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1953: Dr. Lester Middlesworth injected 7 newborn babies with radioactive iodine

December 29, 2014

1953: CIA’s Project MK-ULTRA included at least four sub-projects specifically using children; 102, 103, 112, and 117

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1953: CIA Project MK-ULTRA

December 29, 2014

1953–1957: Oak Ridge-sponsored experiment injected uranium into eleven patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. (ACHRE

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1953–1957: Uranium, boron neutron experimental injections at MGH

December 29, 2014

1960–1972: University of Cincinnati Medical School researchers led by Dr. Eugene Saenger conducted whole-body radiation experiments on

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1960–1972: Whole-body radiation experiments

December 29, 2014

In 1963, prior to flights into space, scientists were concerned about the effect of space radiation on

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1963–1973: High-Dose Radiation Tests on Prisoners’ Testicles to Find Sterility Dose