<story><title>US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)</title><url>https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/13170</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>Of course it was reckless and unethical, but it also seems like kind of an &lt;i&gt;unnecessary&lt;/i&gt; study.  There have been lots of population exposures to radiation before then, and many more since, and there were ample ways to gather data from those.  And, if absolutely necessary, rhesus monkeys are close enough for government work.  With that, and with perhaps some extrapolation and translation of data, I&amp;#x27;m sure that there was nothing to be gained by experimenting on unwitting civilians.&lt;p&gt;By the way, speaking of population exposures to radiation:  In Japan, people still pay good money to bathe in radioactive radon-rich hot springs. [1]  It appears that it might even be healthy.  [2]&lt;p&gt;1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;misasaonsen.jp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;radon&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;misasaonsen.jp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;radon&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;37635139&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;37635139&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)</title><url>https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/13170</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomwheeler</author><text>St. Louisan here, we sure had plenty of it for them to study. It remains a problem to this day.&lt;p&gt;Watch the documentary Atomic Homefront to see for yourself. Just a few miles from the STL airport, radioactive waste from the Manhattan project remains buried in a landfill where an underground fire has been burning for years. People living near a creek in that area have had wildly high rates of diseases associated with exposure, yet the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers claim it&amp;#x27;s no big deal.</text></comment>