Re: "The Plutonium Files"-Question

["Dave" <dlovett@prodigy.net>]

Hiya Paul, Happy New Year,  Dave Lovett
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From: Paul Lavely <lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: "The Plutonium Files"-Question


> >
> >Is this the book which Eileen Welsome, formerly of the Albuquerque
Tribune,
> >was preparing following her series in the Tribune in 1993 [which led to
the
> >DOE "openness initiative" by former DOE Sec. O'Leary]  on the plutonium
> >injection experiments which won Welsome the Pulitizer Prize?
> >
> >If so when was it published, and what is the publishing company?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Stewart Farber
> >Public Health Sciences
> >email: radproject@aol.com
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> Stewart - it is at Amazon.com for about $19. Here is one of several
> reviews at Amazon.
>
>   As World War II reached its climax, the U.S. push to create an
> atomic bomb spawned an industry the size of
>                             General Motors almost overnight. But a
> little-understood human dilemma quickly arose: How was all the
> radiation
>                             involved in building and testing the bomb
> going to affect the countless researchers, soldiers, and civilians
> exposed to
>                             it? Government scientists scrambled to
> find out, fearing cancer outbreaks and worse, but in their urgency
> conducted
>                             classified experiments that bordered on
> the horrific: MIT researchers fed radioactive oatmeal to residents of
> a state
>                             boys' school outside Boston; prisoners in
> Washington and Oregon were subjected to crippling blasts of direct
>                             radiation; and patients with terminal
> illnesses (or so it was hoped) were secretly injected with large
> doses of
>                             plutonium--survivors were surreptitiously
> monitored for years afterward.
>
>                             It was these plutonium guinea pigs that
> set journalist Eileen Welsome on her decade-long search to expose
> this grisly
>                             chapter of America's atomic age, a feat
> that would earn her the Pulitzer Prize. In the impressively thorough
> and
>                             compelling Plutonium Files, Welsome
> recounts her work with a reporter's gift for description,
> characterizing early
>                             radiation researchers as "a curious blend
> of spook, scientist, and soldier," tirelessly interviewing survivors
> and their
>                             families, and providing social and
> political context for a complex and far-reaching scandal. Perhaps
> most damning is
>                             that not only did these cold-war
> experiments violate everything from the Hippocratic Oath to the
> Nuremberg Code,
>                             Welsome reveals, they were often
> ill-conceived, inconclusive, and repetitive--"they were not just
> immoral science,
>                             they were bad science." --Paul Hughes
>
>
> Paul Lavely
> lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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