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Exposing the nation to radiation sickness
By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY
On July 18, 1947, doctors at the University of California at San Francisco drew a bull's-eye on Elmer Allen's left calf and injected radioactive plutonium into the center of the circle. Three days later, Allen's leg was amputated and sent for "radiological" study.
Allen, a Pullman porter before he was hobbled by the loss of his leg, was one of 18 people injected with plutonium in government-financed experiments between 1945 and 1947. Manhattan Project doctors authorized the experiments to determine how exposure to plutonium might affect lab workers.
Experiments that would have made Mengele proud.
Exposing the nation to radiation sickness
By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY
On July 18, 1947, doctors at the University of California at San Francisco drew a bull's-eye on Elmer Allen's left calf and injected radioactive plutonium into the center of the circle. Three days later, Allen's leg was amputated and sent for "radiological" study.
Allen, a Pullman porter before he was hobbled by the loss of his leg, was one of 18 people injected with plutonium in government-financed experiments between 1945 and 1947. Manhattan Project doctors authorized the experiments to determine how exposure to plutonium might affect lab workers.
Experiments that would have made Mengele proud.
