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The plutonium files : America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War

When the vast wartime factories of the Manhattan Project began producing plutonium in quantities never before seen on earth, scientists working on the top-secret bomb-building program grew apprehensive. Fearful that plutonium might cause a cancer epidemic among workers and desperate to learn more about what it could do to the human body, the Manhattan Project's medical doctors embarked upon an experiment in which eighteen unsuspecting patients in hospital wards throughout the country were secretly injected with the cancer-causing substance. Most of these patients would go to their graves without ever knowing what had been done to them.

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  • "When the vast wartime factories of the Manhattan Project began producing plutonium in quantities never before seen on earth, scientists working on the top-secret bomb-building program grew apprehensive. Fearful that plutonium might cause a cancer epidemic among workers and desperate to learn more about what it could do to the human body, the Manhattan Project's medical doctors embarked upon an experiment in which eighteen unsuspecting patients in hospital wards throughout the country were secretly injected with the cancer-causing substance. Most of these patients would go to their graves without ever knowing what had been done to them."@en
  • "A report on the secret medical experiments in which eighteen unwitting patients were injected with plutonium."@en
  • ""Fearful that plutonium might cause a cancer epidemic among workers ... the Manhattan Project's doctors embarked upon an experiement in which ... unsuspecting patients ... were secretly injected with the cancer causing substance."--Jacket."@en

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  • "The plutonium files : America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War / c Eileen Welsome"

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