Vintage DHP: 'Merica Does Mengele Part 1: Radiation Experiments
Boom! - Dropped back on the Gen-Pop feed (reissued for a limited time) from almost 7 years ago, here comes another vintage DHP episode! This one was about the US government's horrific radiation experiments on human test subjects in the mid-20th century.
Join CJ as he discusses:
The Nuremberg Code, and its relevance to these experiments
The first experiments carried out by Manhattan Project doctors between 1945 and 1947, including one on a 4-year-old Australian boy dying of cancer
The creation of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and how they created experimental guidelines similar to the Nuremberg Code, which unfortunately they had no problem ignoring
Over 800 pregnant women in Nashville who were given ‘cocktails’ containing radioactive elements in the late-1940s & early-1950s
Boys at the Walter E. Fernald State School for the mentally disabled who were given radioactive milk and oatmeal courtesy of MIT scientists & the Quaker Oats company
Prisoners in Oregon and Washington who had their testicles dosed with massive amounts of radiation in return for cash
How this all really started to come to light in the 1990s due to investigations by Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary and a committee set up by President Clinton to investigate these experiments
The less-than-satisfying conclusion of those investigations
External Links
Interview with Eileen Welsome, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & author of The Plutonium Files
President Clinton’s remarks from October 1995 regarding these experiments
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Join CJ as he discusses:
The Nuremberg Code, and its relevance to these experiments
The first experiments carried out by Manhattan Project doctors between 1945 and 1947, including one on a 4-year-old Australian boy dying of cancer
The creation of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and how they created experimental guidelines similar to the Nuremberg Code, which unfortunately they had no problem ignoring
Over 800 pregnant women in Nashville who were given ‘cocktails’ containing radioactive elements in the late-1940s & early-1950s
Boys at the Walter E. Fernald State School for the mentally disabled who were given radioactive milk and oatmeal courtesy of MIT scientists & the Quaker Oats company
Prisoners in Oregon and Washington who had their testicles dosed with massive amounts of radiation in return for cash
How this all really started to come to light in the 1990s due to investigations by Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary and a committee set up by President Clinton to investigate these experiments
The less-than-satisfying conclusion of those investigations
External Links
Interview with Eileen Welsome, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & author of The Plutonium Files
President Clinton’s remarks from October 1995 regarding these experiments
Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon, SubscribeStar, or Bitbacker.
CJ’s official DHP Amazon Wish List
Other ways to support the show
CJ’s Picks: Amazon Affiliate Links
Plutonium Files Americas Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
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