The plutonium files
by Eileen Welsome · first published 1999
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If you want to read more on this type of subject, check out "The Plutonium Files" by Eileen Welsome. Pretty scary. http://www.amazon.com/The-Plutonium-Files-Americas-Experimen...
on “Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew (2013)” ↗…was presented in older times by the tobacco companies. And it's not so. An individual can be lucky, but it's not something to be approached with "don't worry". The proofs are in Eileen Welsome's "The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plutonium_Files Much more depressing than Mahaffey's book. And example of the attitude of these responsible,…
on “Safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Lab’s work on U.S. nuclear warheads” ↗Note that this is just an excerpt from a whole book on this topic, "The Plutonium Files" by Eileen Welsome. It's a riveting and disturbing read.
on “The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999)” ↗This is incredible. Reminds me of the phenomenal book The Plutonium Files. If you are interested in the history of the first atomic bomb, definitely compliment this reading with that book.
on “In their own words: Trinity at 75 – The First Nuclear Bomb” ↗…(and mostly minority) people and dying children with plutonium just to see what would happen. The articles forced disclosure from the US Govt. in the form of an executive order and led to the book, The Plutonium Files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plutonium_Files > The government covered up most of these radiation mishaps until 1993, when President Bill Clinton ordered a change of policy and federal agencies then…
on “Why does science news suck so much?” ↗