Decades of nuclear weapons tests and other radioactive experiments injured or killed scientists, soldiers, and innocent bystanders. Many of them, and their relatives, have never been compensated, but new efforts may change that. A former Senate staffer and expert on the US nuclear program looks back at its harmful effects, and how the government addressed them—or didn’t.
| February 1, 2024 thebulletin.org
- ☢ Seeking justice for radiation victims of the US nuclear program
- ☢ Human radiation experiments and Oppenheimer’s “vaudeville”
- ☢ The radiation effects of Trinity
- ☢ Lewis Strauss, Castle Bravo, and the end of above-ground nuclear testing
- ☢ Running shoes on the Senate floor: How US preparations to test nuclear weapons ended