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This year marks twenty years since declassifying data on radiation experiments conducted in for over 60 years by the United States government. The victims more than 20,000 helpless and nothing suspicious people – among them are civilians, prisoners, federal employees, hospital patients, pregnant women, adolescents, children with mental disabilities and employees military departments.
“… Silent scientific experiments that brought down thousands men, women and even children to the level of nameless individuals, “- writes American journalist Eileen Welsem in her book “Materials on Plutonium: Secret American Experiments governments during the Cold War. ”
Unhappy people without their knowledge were exposed to radioactive radiation (plutonium, radioactive arsenic and other substances), to observe the instant and short-term effects of exposure.
In one of these studies conducted in those years Vanderbilt University, 829 unsuspecting pregnant women took a dose of radioactive iron. In another – 188 children received a dose of radioactive iron mixed in lemonade. IN the period from 1963 to 1971 the testicles of dozens of inmates from Oregon and Washington was subjected to intense x-ray irradiation, to find out at what dose of radiation infertility occurs.
In one of the schools, children with slow development received a dose radioactive iron and calcium. Moreover, in the statements of consent parents did not mention anything like that. All over america psychiatric patients received injections of radioactive iodine.
Already at the beginning of the 20th century, it was known that radiation causes death cells, radiation sickness and even death. The following are data from report of a special committee that was established in 1993 for investigation of cases of illegal experiments with radiation on people.
In the 40s and 50s, there were widespread abuses of application of x-rays. All diseases, ranging from depriving and ending with tonsillitis, treated with x-rays, because the long-term risks were either unknown or rated as inconsequential.
Children regularly received a high dose of radiation during the process. determine the size of the foot using a “fluoroscope” in shoe stores.
Radium capsules placed in the nostrils to treat hearing loss, today considered to be the cause of cancer, thyroid disease glands, dental problems and immune system disorders.
Whole-country radiation experiments
Known and larger-scale experiments with radiation. In 1985 the US Department of Energy organized a radiation leak on Idaho. US Air Force organized at least eight desert leaks in Utah.
235 atomic bomb tests and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki officially are not experiments with radiation. However, from 250 to 500 thousand people from among US military personnel received radiation dose during these tests, as well as during post-war occupation of Japan.
The committee also declassified documents from which it became known what the military knew about the high risk of radioactive fallout as a result of testing an atomic bomb at a Nevada test site. Despite this, the generals decided not to transfer the tests to a safer place in Florida where the wind would blow radioactive clouds in the sea.
The National Cancer Institute in the United States published data in 1997, according to which during the atomic bomb tests 160 million Americans were exposed as a result of radioactive fallout. This is comparable to the consequences. nuclear war, just started by its own government.
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