From the Archives: Rochester’s role in the Manhattan project
From the Archives: Rochester’s role in the Manhattan project
From 1943 to 1947, “11 hospital patients were injected with plutonium, 6 were injected with uranium salts, and 5 patients were given doses of polonium.”
Experimentation would continue even into the ’60s.
Like the Manhattan Annex, all research sites kept things tightly under wraps.
Doctors and scientists often used code names for certain chemicals and for human patients.
For example, an African American man named Ebb Cade was classified as HP-12, standing for “Human Product-12.”
Cade had gotten into a car accident on his way to work, sustaining a “broken leg among other injuries.”
He was taken to Oak Ridge Hospital, one of the project-affiliated hospitals.
Instead of immediately treating his injuries, doctors on site instead injected plutonium into him without his consent.
They injected him with a dose of 4.7 micrograms, a dosage “which was almost five times the acceptable, recommended limit.”
To track where the plutonium traveled within his body, they also removed 15 of his teeth.
Three weeks after he was admitted to the hospital, the doctors set his leg.
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https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/human-radiation-experiments
In November 1986, the Congressional Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power released a report called
American Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Three Decades of Radiation Experiments on US Citizens,
which included details about human experiments during the Manhattan Project.
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U.S. Government’s Secret Human Experiments Exposed | “The HotList”
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The Human Plutonium Injection Experiments
William Moss and Roger Eckhardt