ANOTHER COLD WAR SHOCK

This story in Yahoo News about a possible use of human guinea pigs for a test of the effects of radiation reminded of a similar story from the mid-90s.  Thanx to lexisNexis, I found a couple of mentions in the press.

1)

Philadelphia Daily News
March 21, 1994 Monday PM EDITION
CITY PATIENTS WERE NUKED RESEARCHERS CONDUCTED TESTS ON RADIOACTIVITY IN '40S, '50S
BYLINE: Ramona Smith, Daily News Staff Writer
SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. 04
LENGTH: 1063 words

Some were old people, others severely ill or schizophrenic.

Many were patients at university medical centers or Philadelphia General Hospital, the hospital that once was a last resort for the city's poor.

Many were injected in the calf or uterus with radioactive phosphorus or sodium.

And babies of staff members at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children were fed cereal laced with radioactive iron.

In all, dozens of Philadelphia patients were given low doses of radioactive materials by injection or in their diet during a nationwide burst of nuclear research that mushroomed after World War II.

The research of that period has come under heavy national scrutiny since late last year, when news accounts detailed heavy experimental doses of radiation in other cities: Highly radioactive plutonium was injected into 18 patients in Chicago, Rochester and San Francisco. Pregnant women in Nashville were given radioactive iron.

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The New York Times
November 20, 1996, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final
U.S. to Settle for $4.8 Million In Suits on Radiation Testing
BYLINE: By PHILIP J. HILTS
SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 1405 words

The Federal Government has agreed to pay $4.8 million as compensation for injecting 12 people with radioactive materials in secret cold war experiments.

The financial settlement announced yesterday will end several court cases involving injections of uranium or plutonium into 12 people in experiments in Rochester and elsewhere from 1945 to 1947. Most of the people were being treated for existing illnesses at hospitals when they became subjects of the radiation research, which Federal officials now admit had nothing to do with their disorders.

The President's committee found that more than 4,000 experiments had been conducted.