1974 probe tracked plutonium injections in secret human trials
Families discovered years later that the government sampled the bones of dead children for radiation data, a program listed in a National Archives catalogue
By Eleanor Voss ·
Atomic Energy Commission
Joseph A. Lenhard tracked contaminated patients and fallout for the AEC
Workers and patients faced radiation risks at Oak Ridge while officials managed pollution and isotopes, details held in records now accessible through the National Archives.
By Eleanor Voss ·
US Civil Defense files leave nuclear fallout and plutonium injections unprocessed
Families exposed to radiation and victims of plutonium injections remain footnotes in a massive, unsorted collection of government records.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Holmes and Narver mapped radiation exposure for humans and animals at AEC sites
Residents of the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls were displaced and exposed to fallout in a project that now exists as a series of architectural drawings and repatriation plans.
By Roy Castellano ·
John Gofman tracked early nuclear fallout risks for the AEC
Thousands of civilians faced radiation poisoning in the first hours after a nuclear strike, a biological hazard the government sought to quantify starting in 1963.
By Roy Castellano ·
Plutonium injections and nuclear fallout appear in Gordon Dunning's files
Records from the Atomic Energy Commission detail the human cost of Operation Dominic and the 1974 probe into secret plutonium experiments.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Berkeley lab reported "virtually negligible" plutonium leaks
Residents of Northern California lived beside irradiated elements moved between laboratories, while AEC monitors tracked the invisible drift of tritium and plutonium.
By Roy Castellano ·
AEC officials injected humans with plutonium
Patients were injected with plutonium and children's tissues were harvested in secret programs that the Atomic Energy Commission tracked in its internal correspondence.
By June Hargrove ·
AEC officials tracked radioactive fallout to model nuclear war losses
Civilian lives were quantified as "fallout consequences" in records detailing the radiation that drifted over unsuspecting towns during the Cold War.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Ernest Sternglass challenged AEC over permissive radiation safety limits
Government radiation limits allowed too much exposure, according to recordings of Ernest Sternglass and files tracking plutonium contamination and nuclear fallout.
By Roy Castellano ·
Atomic Energy Commission Injected Humans With Plutonium in Secret
Dead infants were used to measure strontium-90 while humans were injected with plutonium, secrets that stayed hidden until a 1974 investigation into the state's nuclear experiments.
By Roy Castellano ·
Harry Truman shifted atomic bomb control to civilians in 1946
Biological hazards and cancer risks remained hidden behind a public face of peacetime development while agency leaders planned emergency relocations with Strategic Air Command.
By Roy Castellano ·
Project SUNSHINE harvested bones from the young without family consent
Families were never asked for permission when government researchers collected bones and teeth from the young to track how Strontium-90 dispersed globally.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Killian weighs military refinement against public clamor over fallout
American inspectors would penetrate the Iron Curtain under a nuclear truce to watch Soviet warhead production while the U.S. managed public fear of radioactive fallout.
By Eleanor Voss ·