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 ·
Project Sunshine
Plutonium injections and Project Sunshine populate 1994 federal audit
Secret injections and radioactive fallout scarred thousands of citizens before Ruth Faden's committee spent years indexing the wreckage in a 1994 federal audit.
By June Hargrove ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·