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A US government program secretly injected people with plutonium

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Behind the well-publicized threat of mass death lies a secret history of nuclear projects being used to destroy individuals. In the late 1940s, United States citizens were injected with plutonium without their knowledge.

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What is certain is that no one administered the dose for the man's health. Although radium was still being touted by unscrupulous companies to the masses as a health tonic, enough people had gotten cancer and radiation sickness that any scientists knew that radiation was bad news

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Reply#1 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:37 AM EST
backroads

Use it right and you're a superhero. Worked for me, but the tights really chafe.

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Reply#2 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:39 PM EST
Desertzonie

Is your "spidey" sense tingling?

    #2.1 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:42 PM EST
    backroads

    More of a hulking thing.

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    #2.2 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:46 PM EST
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    Dog_Blue

    The movie about Karen Silkwood comes to mind.

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    Reply#3 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:51 PM EST
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