Boom! - Dropped back on the Gen-Pop feed (reissued for a limited time) from almost 7 years ago, here comes another vintage DHP episode! This one was about the US government's horrific radiation experiments on human test subjects in the mid-20th century. Join CJ as he discusses: The Nuremberg Code, and its relevance to these experiments The first experiments carried out by Manhattan Project doctors between 1945 and 1947, including one on a 4-year-old Australian boy dying of cancer The creation of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and how they created experimental guidelines similar to the Nuremberg Code, which unfortunately they had no problem ignoring Over 800 pregnant women in Nashville who were given ‘cocktails’ containing radioactive elements in the late-1940s & early-1950s Boys at the Walter E. Fernald State School for the mentally disabled who were given radioactive milk and oatmeal courtesy of MIT scientists & the Quaker Oats company Prisoners in Oregon and Washington who had their testicles dosed with massive amounts of radiation in return for cash How this all really started to come to light in the 1990s due to investigations by Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary and a committee set up by President Clinton to investigate these experiments The less-than-satisfying conclusion of those investigations External Links Interview with Eileen Welsome, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & author of The Plutonium Files President Clinton’s remarks from October 1995 regarding these experiments Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon, SubscribeStar, or Bitbacker. CJ’s official DHP Amazon Wish List Other ways to support the show CJ’s Picks: Amazon Affiliate Links Plutonium Files Americas Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices