"Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts"

On this day in 1945 a staff member at an Oak Ridge, Tennessee hospital injects plutonium into the survivor of a car accident. Thus begins an enormous top secret study that lasts almost 50 years by US government to investigate the effects of radioactive materials on humans.

The study involved several aspects over the years, some well known, and some less widely publicized and documented.

• Early on scientist working on the Manhattan project routinely injected human subjects (without their knowledge) with radioactive plutonium to study the negative effects of radiation, this program did not end until the mid 70`s
• At the Fernal Institute in Massachusetts, 73 mentally disabled children were fed oatmeal containing radioactive Isotopes.
• over a period of decades 829 pregnant mothers in the Oak Ridge Tennessee hospital received what they were told were "vitamin drinks" that would improve the health of their babies, but were, in fact, mixtures containing radioactive iron, to determine how fast the radioisotope crossed into the placenta.
• in 1947 at the Bikini Atoll some 40,000 military personnel in over 150 decommissioned and captured naval vessels were without their knowledge intentionally exposed to nuclear tests
• In 1954, American scientists knowingly conducted fallout exposure research on the citizens of the Marshall Islands a nuclear device was detonated upwind, and the residents were exposed to serious radiation levels, some developed severe radiation sickness and long term affects included birth defects, and thyroid problems.
• In 1950, The U.S. Government in northern New Mexico exploded in the atmosphere a conventional (non-nuclear) bomb containing metal that had been charged with high levels of radioactivity. The scientists then went to Watrous, a town seventy miles east of the laboratory, to make a count of radiation levels.
• Due to the stratospheric nuclear testing that was taking place shortly after World War II “Operation Sunshine" began. this was the theft of cadavers throughout the world by the US government to cremate and examine the amount of radiation absorbed by individuals, of special interest was infants due to their ability to absorb contaminants
• From 1963 to the early 1970s, more than 130 inmates of the Oregon and Washington state penitentiaries participated in an experiment that subjected their testicles to high levels of radiation to determine what it would take to render them temporarily sterile. Available records indicate that the prisoners signed consent forms but were not advised that there was a high risk of contracting testicular cancer

All of this information is true varifiable through a Department of Energy report issued by the Government in the Mid 90`s http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/