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Exposed Part One: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter’s Point from SF Public Press

The sprawling abandoned naval base, in San Francisco’s southeast waterfront Bayview neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real […] The post Exposed Part One: The Human Radiation ...
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Exposed Part Two: the Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point from SF Public Press

In episode two of “Exposed” from our friends at the San Francisco Public Press, we explore a little-known chapter in San Francisco’s nuclear era: human experiments carried out to assess the health ...
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Exposed, part 2: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter’s Point

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones, who later ...
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Decades after UC radiation experiments, students and families call for better memorial

Between 1960 and 1972, UC researchers exposed more than 90 people to full-body radiation via a Department of Defense-funded ...
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The plutonium files : America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War / Eileen Welsome

Pt. I. The "Product" -- Ch. 1. The acid taste of Plutonium -- Ch. 2. The Rad Lab -- Ch. 3. 1942: the Met Lab -- Ch. 4. A tolerable dose -- Ch. 5. The Manhattan project is launched -- Ch. 6. Plutonium ...
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Exposed, part 1: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter’s Point

This episode comes to us from the podcast at SF Public Press. “Exposed” opens a window into the little-known history of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in San ...