Missouri’s Republican senator is asking the secretary of the Army to investigate reports that the military may have conducted secret Cold War-experiments on his unsuspecting constituents.
A St. Louis TV station reported this week that zinc cadmium sulfide was sprayed on thousands of residents, with the greatest concentration on a low-income housing complex, but the reporters were not able to substantiate whether the Army added a radioactive element to the compound.
“I am deeply troubled in light of recent reports that the U.S. Army may have been involved in exposing thousands of unsuspecting Missourians to a chemical called zinc cadmium sulfide during the Cold War. I’m particularly concerned by allegations that these tests of zinc cadmium sulfide throughout the 1950s and 1960s might have contained a radioactive component that went undisclosed in initial reports,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) wrote to Army Secretary John McHugh today.
“The idea that thousands of Missourians were unwillingly exposed to harmful materials in order to determine their health effects is absolutely shocking. It should come as no surprise that these individuals and their families are demanding answers of government officials.”
Blunt asked McHugh to dig back decades into the records and turn over answers regarding which areas were subjected to the spraying and about the health effects of exposure.
wtf, is this a “contrail” story? no. it was an actual program, apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_cadmium_sulfide
lot of dumb stuff was done in the 1950s, remember the fluroscopes in the shoe stores, not to mention doctors’ offices?
we were a lot less knowledgeable back then, also a lot less whimpy, and I mean that as two separate observations and not two sides of the same thing.
Doesn’t pass the science test:
The objective of this exercise was to see how nature moved stuff around (why we were interested in this in the ’50 is I hope obvious). Therefore they used a compound of florescent molecules that could be trivially detected.
Why add a radioactive tracer to the mix? Unless it was cheap back then to detect gamma rays of very specific energies it wouldn’t have been useful amidst all the background radiation. If you’re worried about that sort of thing, I sure hope you don’t eat bananas, or as Edward Teller commented about Three Mile Island, sleep next to two people—you’d get a higher dose than from that incident—all this thanks to energetic potassium 40.
There’s a genuine dilemma here. To move beyond anecdotal information to data, we have to do some testing in the real world. Yes, we know about some of these dangers NOW, but it is precisely BECAUSE we did those tests that we now know this.
The obvious intent here was to murder sub-human black folks. That’s always been the objective of the rest of humanity.
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