>https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/atomic-veterans-1946-1962/
These plutonium injections were given between 1945-1947 at the Manhattan District Hospital at Oak Ridge, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Chicago, and Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. The patient samples were then analyzed in affiliated labs nearby or shipped back to Los Alamos to be examined by a biomedical research team led by Dr. Wright Langham. The chemical process of determining the amount of plutonium in a sample was complex, requiring a contamination-free laboratory. The sample was dried, converted to ash, and finally dissolved in acid.
In Rochester, a Manhattan Annex was established in 1943 at the Strong Memorial Hospital to study the toxicity of radioactive isotopes including plutonium, uranium, and polonium. Between 1946-1947, physicians injected six patients with uranium with the research goal of discerning the minimum dose that would produce detectable kidney damage. This was an experimental protocol intended to produce a harmful reaction in the subjects.
Ebb Cade was the first test subject. Cade was a 53-year-old African American male who worked for an Oak Ridge construction company as a cement mixer. On March 24, 1945, he was involved in an auto accident, which caused fractures in his arm and leg. Documents from the time show that he was otherwise healthy. Over the next two weeks, he was given the codename HP-12, with HP standing for Human Product. Dr. Friedell wrote to Dr. Hempelmann at Los Alamos that he had found a primary subject for the plutonium experiment.
On April 10, 1945, Dr. Joseph Howland administered a plutonium dose of 4.7 micrograms to Cade, who was awaiting a procedure to set his bones. From 1943-1945, the maximum possible body burden (MPBB) for plutonium had been 5 micrograms, based on limits adopted for radium. Based on animal experimentation, Langham and Friedell had recently concluded that because plutonium remained in the bone for longer than radium, the MPBB should actually be set at 1 microgram. Cade’s dose was nearly five times that limit.
Cade was not treated for his arm and leg injuries until April 15, five days after the injection, so that the doctors would be able to biopsy his bone samples. This included extracting 15 of his teeth, which were subsequently shipped to Wright Langham at Los Alamos. It is unclear if Cade suffered from legitimate tooth decay. Shortly after his bones had been set, Cade suddenly discharged himself from the hospital. He moved out of Tennessee and died of heart failure on April 13, 1953, 8 years after the Oak Ridge injection.
Another questionable case was CAL-2, a four-year old boy named Simeon Shaw suffering from terminal bone cancer. He was flown with his mother to the UCSF hospital in a US military plane from Australia, apparently under the advisement of a physician in Australia. He arrived in California in April 1946 and was admitted to the hospital. For some time, he was separated for his mother, who was only allowed visits periodically. Simeon received a plutonium injection at UCSF under the oversight of Joseph Hamilton and was discharged from the hospital within a month. The Shaws returned to Australia and no follow-ups were ever conducted. Simeon died eight months later.
The physicians involved knew that the procedures had no therapeutic benefits and would be detrimental in the long run if the patients lived. Human experimentation was justified by the claim that the patients were terminally ill; however, this was not true in all cases. Repeated errors in diagnosis, procedure, documentation, and research were made, ultimately calling into question the efficacy of the experiments themselves.
Between 1953-1957, Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted uranium injection experiments on eleven patients at Massachusetts General Hospital as part of their continued Health Physics research. Scientists discovered that uranium localized in human kidneys at a much higher rate than previously thought, and therefore that maximum permissible levels were too high. Despite the efforts of this experiment, however, occupational standards for uranium did not change at any national laboratories.
Other large scale, federally sponsored research was performed on prisoners in Washington and Oregon state prisons and on pregnant women at Vanderbilt University. Like human injections from 1945-1947, these experiments took advantage of vulnerable populations who were not given sufficient details to give informed consent.
>put japs in camps >experiment on Black folks >turn israelites ships back to germany >stays in power for as much time as hitler >similar economic policy
Based?
I remember seeing videos from that and I must say cavalry charging with swords and AKs drawn in the shade of nuclear clouds is now a recurring fantasy of mine.
sobering tbh. nevermind the big explosion part, the radiation fricking people up who survived sucked. even years later people getting surprise you have cancer. children's monument was made for a girl who got leukemia years later. the main message overall i'd say is "no more use of nuclear bombs." the hypocenter (the position the bomb went off) is just this plaque next to a parking garage, by the way. you wouldn't even know it if you didn't look at it.
very educational though. they have a lot of artifacts from the bombing. put a lot of stories/humanity into it (i'm ignoring the whole you got bombed so we didnt have to do operation downfall/russians were going to come in too part). price for admission was super cheap, like a lot of things in japan. worth a day trip to if you're in the area. i plan to go to nagasaki eventually as well.
sobering tbh. nevermind the big explosion part, the radiation fricking people up who survived sucked. even years later people getting surprise you have cancer. children's monument was made for a girl who got leukemia years later. the main message overall i'd say is "no more use of nuclear bombs." the hypocenter (the position the bomb went off) is just this plaque next to a parking garage, by the way. you wouldn't even know it if you didn't look at it.
very educational though. they have a lot of artifacts from the bombing. put a lot of stories/humanity into it (i'm ignoring the whole you got bombed so we didnt have to do operation downfall/russians were going to come in too part). price for admission was super cheap, like a lot of things in japan. worth a day trip to if you're in the area. i plan to go to nagasaki eventually as well.
I went when I was a kid, very informative and even got my moron brain to focus on what was on display. Went outside afterwards, beautiful sunny day, children laughing nearby, sat on a bench and cried my eyes out. It was so peaceful it was hard to believe what had actually occurred there.
>A mere handful of troops
Get on my level, Black person >The Totskoye nuclear exercise was a military exercise undertaken by the Soviet Army to explore defensive and offensive warfare during nuclear war. The exercise, under the code name "Snowball", involved an aerial detonation of a 40 kt[1] RDS-4 nuclear bomb. The stated goal of the operation was military training for breaking through heavily fortified defensive lines of a military opponent using nuclear weapons.[2][3] An army of 45,000 soldiers marched through the area around the hypocenter soon after the nuclear blast. The exercise was conducted on September 14, 1954, at 9.33 a.m.,[4][5] under the command of Marshal Georgy Zhukov to the north of Totskoye village in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, in the South Ural Military District. The epicenter of the detonation is marked with a memorial.[6]
Again there was no disclosure to the subjects that they were now being followed because they had been subjects of an experiment that had been unrelated to their medical care, an experiment in which there was continuing scientific interest. The 1974 AEC investigation concluded that, in the case of the surviving Rochester subjects, Dr. Waterhouse, who conducted the follow-up studies with these patients for Argonne, had not told them the purpose of the studies in 1973 because she believed "that disclosure might be harmful to them in view of their advanced age and ill health."[146] This suggests that Dr. Waterhouse had well-intentioned motivations for not being straightforward with the Rochester subjects. It also suggests that these subjects had not been told the truth about the experiments at the time the injections occurred, or that they had forgotten. According to Dr. Waterhouse, the studies were feasible without the subjects' knowledge of the true purpose of the research since these two patients "were accustomed to participating in clinical studies, unrelated to this matter, involving the collection of excretion specimens."
https://ehss.energy.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/chap5_4.html
>have convicted murderers, rapists, thieves >conduct medical experiments on innocents seeking medical assistance instead
Friendly reminder the Nuremberg trial didn't mean anything.
Was at an underground hospital/nuclear bunker in Budapest a few weeks ago. They had a bunch of stuff recovered from Hiroshima. Including a handful of coins that had melted together and a wall with someone's shadow burnt into it
Strange that doctors and scientists always forget they can do the experiments on themselves. That way the test subjects would always be around for further testing and interviews.
Someone post the video
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/atomic-veterans-1946-1962/
>https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/atomic-veterans-1946-1962/
These plutonium injections were given between 1945-1947 at the Manhattan District Hospital at Oak Ridge, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Chicago, and Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. The patient samples were then analyzed in affiliated labs nearby or shipped back to Los Alamos to be examined by a biomedical research team led by Dr. Wright Langham. The chemical process of determining the amount of plutonium in a sample was complex, requiring a contamination-free laboratory. The sample was dried, converted to ash, and finally dissolved in acid.
In Rochester, a Manhattan Annex was established in 1943 at the Strong Memorial Hospital to study the toxicity of radioactive isotopes including plutonium, uranium, and polonium. Between 1946-1947, physicians injected six patients with uranium with the research goal of discerning the minimum dose that would produce detectable kidney damage. This was an experimental protocol intended to produce a harmful reaction in the subjects.
Ebb Cade was the first test subject. Cade was a 53-year-old African American male who worked for an Oak Ridge construction company as a cement mixer. On March 24, 1945, he was involved in an auto accident, which caused fractures in his arm and leg. Documents from the time show that he was otherwise healthy. Over the next two weeks, he was given the codename HP-12, with HP standing for Human Product. Dr. Friedell wrote to Dr. Hempelmann at Los Alamos that he had found a primary subject for the plutonium experiment.
On April 10, 1945, Dr. Joseph Howland administered a plutonium dose of 4.7 micrograms to Cade, who was awaiting a procedure to set his bones. From 1943-1945, the maximum possible body burden (MPBB) for plutonium had been 5 micrograms, based on limits adopted for radium. Based on animal experimentation, Langham and Friedell had recently concluded that because plutonium remained in the bone for longer than radium, the MPBB should actually be set at 1 microgram. Cade’s dose was nearly five times that limit.
Cade was not treated for his arm and leg injuries until April 15, five days after the injection, so that the doctors would be able to biopsy his bone samples. This included extracting 15 of his teeth, which were subsequently shipped to Wright Langham at Los Alamos. It is unclear if Cade suffered from legitimate tooth decay. Shortly after his bones had been set, Cade suddenly discharged himself from the hospital. He moved out of Tennessee and died of heart failure on April 13, 1953, 8 years after the Oak Ridge injection.
Another questionable case was CAL-2, a four-year old boy named Simeon Shaw suffering from terminal bone cancer. He was flown with his mother to the UCSF hospital in a US military plane from Australia, apparently under the advisement of a physician in Australia. He arrived in California in April 1946 and was admitted to the hospital. For some time, he was separated for his mother, who was only allowed visits periodically. Simeon received a plutonium injection at UCSF under the oversight of Joseph Hamilton and was discharged from the hospital within a month. The Shaws returned to Australia and no follow-ups were ever conducted. Simeon died eight months later.
The physicians involved knew that the procedures had no therapeutic benefits and would be detrimental in the long run if the patients lived. Human experimentation was justified by the claim that the patients were terminally ill; however, this was not true in all cases. Repeated errors in diagnosis, procedure, documentation, and research were made, ultimately calling into question the efficacy of the experiments themselves.
Between 1953-1957, Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducted uranium injection experiments on eleven patients at Massachusetts General Hospital as part of their continued Health Physics research. Scientists discovered that uranium localized in human kidneys at a much higher rate than previously thought, and therefore that maximum permissible levels were too high. Despite the efforts of this experiment, however, occupational standards for uranium did not change at any national laboratories.
Other large scale, federally sponsored research was performed on prisoners in Washington and Oregon state prisons and on pregnant women at Vanderbilt University. Like human injections from 1945-1947, these experiments took advantage of vulnerable populations who were not given sufficient details to give informed consent.
>No nazi ever injected me with plutonium and stole my teeth
>put japs in camps
>experiment on Black folks
>turn israelites ships back to germany
>stays in power for as much time as hitler
>similar economic policy
Based?
>put japs in camps
At least they had functional showers
wtf
THE NUCLEAR WEAPON HAS THE ENEMY IN DISARRAY, DRAW SWORDS AND CHARGE
I remember seeing videos from that and I must say cavalry charging with swords and AKs drawn in the shade of nuclear clouds is now a recurring fantasy of mine.
Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEN5rGR7gtM&ab_channel=AltayisAltay
i went to the hiroshima museum last week bros
there were a shitload of school kids on trips
How was it? I know someone who was there last week too
I was there back in 2017 and it was a pretty sobering experience overall
there were some cool artifacts recovered from the blast zone at least
Thanks anons I'll check it out myself one day
sobering tbh. nevermind the big explosion part, the radiation fricking people up who survived sucked. even years later people getting surprise you have cancer. children's monument was made for a girl who got leukemia years later. the main message overall i'd say is "no more use of nuclear bombs." the hypocenter (the position the bomb went off) is just this plaque next to a parking garage, by the way. you wouldn't even know it if you didn't look at it.
very educational though. they have a lot of artifacts from the bombing. put a lot of stories/humanity into it (i'm ignoring the whole you got bombed so we didnt have to do operation downfall/russians were going to come in too part). price for admission was super cheap, like a lot of things in japan. worth a day trip to if you're in the area. i plan to go to nagasaki eventually as well.
I went when I was a kid, very informative and even got my moron brain to focus on what was on display. Went outside afterwards, beautiful sunny day, children laughing nearby, sat on a bench and cried my eyes out. It was so peaceful it was hard to believe what had actually occurred there.
>LE BOMB... LE KILLED PEOPLE
>ABLOOBLOOBLOO BOOHOO WO TO OUR SPECIES
have a nice day
Amazing.
Auschwitz is nothing compared to the horror stories told in that museum.
I left and everyone was crying.
>dude just breathe some radioactive air, all the cool kids do it, you're a cool kid, right?
>A mere handful of troops
Get on my level, Black person
>The Totskoye nuclear exercise was a military exercise undertaken by the Soviet Army to explore defensive and offensive warfare during nuclear war. The exercise, under the code name "Snowball", involved an aerial detonation of a 40 kt[1] RDS-4 nuclear bomb. The stated goal of the operation was military training for breaking through heavily fortified defensive lines of a military opponent using nuclear weapons.[2][3] An army of 45,000 soldiers marched through the area around the hypocenter soon after the nuclear blast. The exercise was conducted on September 14, 1954, at 9.33 a.m.,[4][5] under the command of Marshal Georgy Zhukov to the north of Totskoye village in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, in the South Ural Military District. The epicenter of the detonation is marked with a memorial.[6]
Again there was no disclosure to the subjects that they were now being followed because they had been subjects of an experiment that had been unrelated to their medical care, an experiment in which there was continuing scientific interest. The 1974 AEC investigation concluded that, in the case of the surviving Rochester subjects, Dr. Waterhouse, who conducted the follow-up studies with these patients for Argonne, had not told them the purpose of the studies in 1973 because she believed "that disclosure might be harmful to them in view of their advanced age and ill health."[146] This suggests that Dr. Waterhouse had well-intentioned motivations for not being straightforward with the Rochester subjects. It also suggests that these subjects had not been told the truth about the experiments at the time the injections occurred, or that they had forgotten. According to Dr. Waterhouse, the studies were feasible without the subjects' knowledge of the true purpose of the research since these two patients "were accustomed to participating in clinical studies, unrelated to this matter, involving the collection of excretion specimens."
https://ehss.energy.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/chap5_4.html
>have convicted murderers, rapists, thieves
>conduct medical experiments on innocents seeking medical assistance instead
Friendly reminder the Nuremberg trial didn't mean anything.
Think that is something? Go look up US practices of lobotomy. We are not talking about dozen of examples there.
Might actually help if we lobotomized a fourth of the country. They're basically NPCs anyways
>Ok
Was at an underground hospital/nuclear bunker in Budapest a few weeks ago. They had a bunch of stuff recovered from Hiroshima. Including a handful of coins that had melted together and a wall with someone's shadow burnt into it
Strange that doctors and scientists always forget they can do the experiments on themselves. That way the test subjects would always be around for further testing and interviews.