{"product_id":"the-plutonium-files-americas-secret-medical-experiments-in-the-cold-war","title":"The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War","description":"In a Massachusetts school, seventy-three disabled children were spoon fed radioactive isotopes along with their morning oatmeal....In an upstate New York hospital, an eighteen-year-old woman, believing she was being treated for a pituitary disorder, was injected with plutonium by Manhattan Project doctors....At a Tennessee prenatal clinic, 829 pregnant women were served \"vitamin cocktails\"--in truth, drinks containing radioactive iron--as part of their prenatal treatmen....\n\nIn 1945, the seismic power of atomic energy was already well known to researchers, but the effects of radiation on human beings were not. Fearful that plutonium would cause a cancer epidemic among workers, Manhattan Project doctors embarked on a human experiment that was as chilling as it was closely guarded: the systematic injection of unsuspecting Americans with radioactive plutonium. In this shocking exposé, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eileen Welsome reveals the unspeakable scientific trials that reduced thousands of American men, women, and even children to nameless specimens with silvery radioactive metal circulating in their veins. Spanning the 1930s to the 1990s, filled with hundreds of newly declassified documents and firsthand interviews, The Plutonium Files traces the behind-the-scenes story of an extraordinary fifty-year cover-up. It illuminates a shadowy chapter in this country's history and gives eloquent voice to the men and women who paid for our atomic energy discoveries with their health--and sometimes their lives.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0385319541\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: HBSV.0385319541.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Welsome, Eileen\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition and has little to no writing, underlining, and or highlighting. Cover may have some cosmetic wear.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Happy Book Stack ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67943782482221,"sku":"HBSV.0385319541.VG","price":25.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/6799\/6205\/files\/0385319541-0.jpg?v=1793392648","url":"https:\/\/www.thehappybookstack.com\/products\/the-plutonium-files-americas-secret-medical-experiments-in-the-cold-war","provider":"The Happy Book Stack ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}