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James M. Gates Jr.
James Major B. Gates (July 17, 1935 – March 20, 2004) was the last survivor of the segregated 95th Engineers Combat Battalion, which was used for human fallout exposure testing. They were stationed in closest vicinity during atomic blasting at Camp Desert Rock in Nevada in 1954. He was quoted as saying, "''there is no reckoning why the government would hurt its own people''." At age 15 Gates saw combat in Korea, was captured, jailed and beaten. Upon returning to the United States in 1953, Jim's unit was first shipped to Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri for 8 weeks of basic and special project training, including gas exposure. In 1954, his unit was sent to Yakima Washington, where Jim and the others worked as extras in the Audie Murphy movie "''To Hell and Back''". Jim said the movie title was Providential. By July of that year, his unit was sent to Nevada by night-train to prevent the men going AWOL, and at that time told not to reveal what awaited them in Camp Desert Rock (bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Radiation Experiments
Since the discovery of ionizing radiation, a number of human radiation experiments have been performed to understand the effects of ionizing radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body, specifically with the element plutonium. Experiments performed in the United States Numerous human radiation experiments have been performed in the United States, many of which were funded by various U.S. government agencies such as the United States Department of Defense, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and the United States Public Health Service. Experiments including: * feeding radioactive material to mentally disabled childrenThe Plutonium Files: America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War, by Eileen Welsome, Dial Press, c1999, New York, N.Y., * enlisting doctors to administer radioactive iron to impoverished pregnant women * exposing U.S. soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation * irradiating the testicles of prisoners, which caused severe bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
