THE HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS

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And I thought it was 2nd hand smoke causing our problems -- Disinformation and Nuclear Fallout offers real deal. also ck..Does Secret Medical Experimentation Continue? Take care, UncBob http://www.whale.to/a/cantwell9.html (see also http://www.whale.to/c/cantwell_alan.html http://ariesrisingpress.com/about/) THE HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS How scientists secretly used US citizens as guinea pigs during the Cold War By Alan R Cantwell Jr., M.D. New Dawn No. 68 (September-October 2001) Disinformation and Nuclear FalloutSecret Radiation ExperimentsThe Atomic Energy CommissionUranium Mine WorkersMedical Ethics of the Cold WarThe President’s Advisory CommitteeKeeping Government SecretsCurrent Secret Biomedical ExperimentationDoes Secret Medical

Experimentation Continue? In preparing America for nuclear attack during the Cold War years following World War II, thousands of US citizens became the innocent victims of over 4,000 secret and classified radiation experiments conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and other government agencies, such as the Department of Defense, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Public Health Service (now the CDC), the National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration (VA), the CIA, and NASA. Millions of people were exposed to radioactive fallout from the continental testing of more than 200 atmospheric and underground nuclear weapons, and from the hundreds of secret releases of radiation into the environment. Over 200,000 “atomic vets” who worked closely with nuclear detonations at the Nevada test site during the 1950s and 1960s were especially vulnerable to radiation fallout. Also affected were

the thousands of so-called “downwinders”, who lived in nearby small towns in Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. These downwinders (along with the animal populations) suffered the worst cumulative radioactive effects of fallout, along with a contaminated environment teeming with radioactive food and farm products. The plight of these poor country people exposed to government-induced radiation sickness has been recorded in Carole Gallagher’s remarkable photo-essay American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War (The Free Press, 1993). In reviewing declassified AEC records (now the Department of Energy) from the 1950s, Gallagher was shocked to discover one document that described the people downwind of the Nevada Test Site as “a low use segment of the population.” Her shock at such callous bigotry caused her to eventually move West to research, investigate and document those who lived closest to the Test Site, as well as workers at the site, and soldiers

repeatedly exposed to nuclear bombs during the military tests. Disinformation and Nuclear Fallout In the nuclear arms race, government doctors and scientists brainwashed the public into believing low dose radiation was not harmful. Some officials even tried to convince people that “a little radiation is good for you.” Totally ignored was the knowledge that the radiation from nuclear fallout could lead to an increased risk of cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, immune system disease, reproductive abnormalities, sterility, birth defects, and genetic mutations which could be passed on from generation to generation === text continues at above links====

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