U.S. government-sponsored radiation research on humans 1945-1975.
@article{Mccally1994USGR, title={U.S. government-sponsored radiation research on humans 1945-1975.}, author={M. Mccally and C. Cassel and Daryl G Kimball}, journal={Medicine and global survival : M & GS}, year={1994}, volume={1 1}, pages={ 4-17 } }
the United States' cold war experience was reopened when Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary responded to news media reports about government-sponsored radiation research involving hundreds of human subjects, often without their informed consent. At a December 7 press conference on her initiative to declassify some of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) nuclear research records, O'Leary commented on a series of articles about plutonium injection experiments involving 18 subjects published a month… CONTINUE READING
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