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This is terrifying and so sad. Here they're talking about plans to resettle the displaced local population back to the location of a nuclear bomb test: """ U.S
by svara 7y ago
This is terrifying and so sad. Here they're talking about plans to resettle the displaced local population back to the location of a nuclear bomb test:
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U.S. government documents from the time show that officials weighed the potential hazards of radiation exposure against “the current low morale of the natives” and a “risk of an onset of indolence.” Ultimately they decided to go forward with the resettlement so researchers could study the effects of lingering radiation on human beings.
“Data of this type has never been available,” Merrill Eisenbud, a U.S official with the Atomic Energy Commission, said at a January 1956 meeting of the agency’s Biology and Medicine Committee. “While it is true that these people do not live the way that Westerners do, civilized people, it is nonetheless also true that they are more like us than the mice.
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- mirimir 7y agoBack in the 40s-60s, the AEC was also cool with radiation exposure testing on US troops, poor Black people, prisoners, etc. Edit: Plus Japanese, of course. And, arguably, the entire US population.
- vectorEQ 7y agothat makes it so much better... These scientists knew exactly what they were doing and what the fallout would be. They just chose to dump the large part on some foreign place and continue to this day to lie and deceive these peoples. not to say they were the only one. but it's sick, and that's it. nothing else to it. They should by now in 2019 know better and respond better.
- mirimir 7y agoYes, they knowingly engaged in human experimentation. And they should do whatever it takes now to mitigate the damage.