Recently released government documents show that the US government
experimented in bio-warfare and radiation testing using live subjects. Among
other experiments: Dr Joseph G. Hamilton of the University of California
hospital at SanFrancisco proposed a radioactive aerosol as a military
weapon. Experiments were conducted giving "lethal dose" exposures to
terminal patients. At least one of the "terminal" patients had been
misdiagnosed: he only had an ulcer. In Miami, Florida, radioactive needles
were placed in an Army private's nostrils. At the Vanderbilt University
Medical Center 751 late-term pregnant women were given radioactive water 30
times background radiation levels at a free clinic. Twelve "battlefield
radiation" tests were carried out over Tennessee and Utah. The US Air Force
dropped radioactive cluster bombs dispersing as much as 15,000 curies in
open-air fall-out tests. In Virginia, aspergillus fumagatus, a potentially
lethal bacterium, was released upon mainly black workers at the Norfolk
Naval Supply Center. In a nation-wide test 235 new-born babies were injected
with radioactive iodide. In Memphis six out of every seven babies selected
were black. Mainly non-English speaking Eskimos in Alaska were given an
apple and orange each for their participation in Army tests to inject them
with radioactive iodide. At least 34 underground nuclear tests in the US
released significant levels of radiation into the atmosphere. Retarded
children in a school in Massachusetts were given doses of radiation in their
breakfast cereal. Prisoners in Oregon and Washington agreed to have their
testicles dipped in radioactive water for $5.00 per week. The directors of
the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a magazine that has campaigned for
nuclear disarmament since 1947, say that the danger of nuclear war is the
highest that it's been since the end of the Cold War.
