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Into the 1970s, the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the Manhattan Project conducted other human radiation experiments.

Radiation was known to be dangerous and the experiments were designed to ascertain the detailed effect of radiation on human health.

In Nashville, pregnant women were given radioactive mixtures.

In Cincinatti, some 200 patients were irradiated over a period of 15 years.

In Chicago, 102 people received injections of strontium and cesium solutions.

In Massachusetts, 74 schoolboys were fed oatmeal that contained radioactive substances.

In all these cases, the subjects did not know what was going on and did not give informed consent.

The government covered up most of these radiation mishaps until 1993, when President Bill Clinton ordered a change of policy.

The resulting investigation was undertaken by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, and it uncovered much of the material included in The Plutonium Files.