Military planes dropped “radiation bombs” by U.S. cities — 60 times more radioactivity than released during TMI meltdown

Military planes dropped “radiation bombs” by U.S. cities — 60
times more radioactivity than released during TMI meltdown

Title:
Humans Used for Radiation
Experiments: A Shameful Chapter in US History

Victims
included civilians, prison inmates, federal workers, hospital patients,
pregnant women, infants, developmentally disabled children and military
personnel — most of them powerless, poor, sick, elderly or terminally ill.
Eileen Welsome’s 1999 exposé The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical
Experiments in the Cold War details “the unspeakable scientific trials that
reduced thousands of men, women, and even children to nameless specimens.”

The
program employed industry and academic scientists who used their hapless
patients or wards to see the immediate and short-term effects of radioactive
contamination — with everything from plutonium to radioactive arsenic. The
human subjects were mostly poisoned without their knowledge or consent.

An
April 17, 1947 memo by Col OG Haywood of the Army Corps of Engineers, reported
by The Washington Post on Dec. 16, 1994, explained why the studies were
classified: “It is desired that no document be released which refers to
experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion or
result in legal suits.”

In
one Vanderbilt University study, 829 pregnant women were unknowingly fed
radioactive iron. In another, 188 children were given radioactive iron-laced
lemonade. Detailed by a 1986 report of the Subcommittee on Energy Conservation
and Power, from 1963 to 1971, 67 inmates in Oregon and 64 prisoners in
Washington had their testicles targeted with X-rays to see what doses made them
sterile.

At
the Fernald State School, mentally retarded boys were fed radioactive iron and
calcium but consent forms sent to parents didn’t mention radiation. A 1994
Minneapolis StarTribune report, “48 more human radiation experiments revealed,”
noted psychiatric patients and infants were injected with radioactive iodine.

In
a rare public condemnation, Clinton Administration Energy Sec. Hazel O’Leary
confessed to being aghast at the conduct of the scientists. She told Newsweek
in 1994: “I said, ‘Who were these people and why did this happen?’ The only
thing I could think of was Nazi Germany.” None of the victims were provided
follow-on medical care.

Scientists
knew from the beginning of the 20th century that radiation could cause genetic
and cell damage, cell death, radiation sickness and even death. A Presidential
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments was established in 1993 to
investigate charges of unethical or criminal action by the experimenters. Its
findings were published by Oxford University Press in 1996 as The Human
Radiation Experiments.

The
abuse of X-radiation “therapy” was also conducted throughout the ’40s and ’50s.
Everything from ringworm to tonsillitis was “treated” with X-radiation because
the long-term risks were unknown or considered tolerable. Joseph Mangano’s 2012
Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment reveals that children were routinely
exposed to alarmingly high doses of radiation from devices like “fluoroscopes”
to measure foot size in shoe stores. Nasal radium capsules inserted in
nostrils, used to attack hearing loss, are now thought to be the cause of
cancers, thyroid and dental problems, immune dysfunction and more, although a
National Cancer Institute fact sheet claims there is no clear link between
nasal radium exposure and cancer.

In
large-scale experiments as late as 1985, the Energy Department deliberately
produced reactor meltdowns that spewed radiation across Idaho and beyond. The
Washington Post reported the meltdown July 10, 1985, quoting an Energy
Department spokesman as saying, “It appears that the test was a complete
success.” The Air Force conducted at least eight deliberate meltdowns in the
Utah desert in 1959, dispersing 14 times the radiation released by the partial
meltdown of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, an Associated Press
reported in 1994.

The
military even dumped radiation from planes and spread it across wide areas
around and downwind of Oak Ridge, Tenn., Los Alamos, NM, and Dugway, Utah. This
“systematic radiation warfare program,” conducted between 1944 and 1961, was
kept secret for decades.

“Radiation
bombs” thrown from USAF planes intentionally spread radiation “unknown
distances” endangering the young and old alike. One such experiment doused Utah
with 60 times more radiation than escaped the Three Mile Island accident,
according to Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who released a report on the program 20
years ago.

The
Pentagon’s aboveground nuclear bomb tests of 1945-1962, totaling more than 200,
and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are not officially listed as
radiation experiments. Yet between 250,000 and 500,000 US military personnel
were contaminated during their compulsory participation in the bomb tests and
the post-war occupation of Japan.

Documents
uncovered by the Advisory Committee show that the military knew there were
serious radioactive fallout risks from its Nevada Test Site bomb blasts. The
generals decided not to use a safer site in Florida, where fallout would have
blown out to sea. “The officials determined it was probably not safe, but went
ahead anyway,” Pat Fitzgerald, a scientist on the committee staff, told The New
York Times March 15, 1995.

In
addition, Dr. Gioacchino Failla, a Columbia University scientist who worked for
the Atomic Energy Commission, was quoted in the same 1995 report as saying, “We
should take some risk… we are faced with a war in which atomic weapons will
undoubtedly be used, and we have to have some information about these things.”

With
the National Cancer Institute’s 1997 finding that all US citizens in the
country at the time of the bomb tests were contaminated with fallout, it’s
clear we did face war with atomic weapons — our own.

(John LaForge works for the nuclear watchdog group Nukewatch in
Wisconsin, edits its Quarterly newsletter, and writes for PeaceVoice … where this
column was first posted.)

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