Final Report
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S3 a j	Human Radiation Experiments	3* £-
s	Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation	5
CJ Ck	experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive	©
X	contamination on the human body. Most of these tests were performed, funded, or	o
S3	supervised by the United States military, Atomic Energy Commission, or various
#o	other U.S. federal government agencies. The experiments included a wide array of
.2	studies, involving things like feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children,
*3	deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities,	£
P4	measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, and	3
S3 Gt	irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, among other things. Much information	p S3
s	about these programs was classified and kept secret. In the 1990s Eileen Welsome's
hh	reports on radiation testing for The Albuquerque Tribune prompted the creation of the	P o
HH	Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments by executive order of	P*
	president Bill Clinton in order to monitor government tests; it published results in	©*
	1995.	33
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