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Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans

Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans

Martino-Taylor, Lisa

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral ScienceWeapons of Mass Destruction

ISBN10: 1138239674
ISBN13: 9781138239678
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 1 2017
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Behind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book examines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive simulants that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or consent during the Cold War. Although Western biological and chemical weapons programs have been analyzed by a number of scholars, Behind the Fog is a strong departure from the rest in that the United States radiological weapons program has been generally unknown to the public. Martino-Taylor documents the coordinated efforts of a small group of military scientists who advanced a four-pronged secret program of human-subject radiation studies that targeted unsuspecting Americans for Cold War military purposes. Officials enabled such projects to advance through the layering of secrecy, by embedding classified studies in other studies, and through outright deception. Agency and academic partnerships advanced, supported, and concealed the studies from the public at large who ultimately served as unwitting test subjects.

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