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Article: A dose of radiation sickness: radio
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1995
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There are some subjects you wouldn't imagine it was possible to
treat too seriously. Listening to the first part of America Atomica
(R4, Wednesday), though, you quickly realise that anything can be
taken too far. John Slater's three-part survey ofthe mess left
behind by America's Cold War obsession with nuclear power began
last week by looking at the evidence, currently being examined by
President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation
Experiments, that between the 1940s and the early 1970s thousands
of American citizens were unknowingly or uncomprehendingly
subjected to large doses of radiation in the name of research:
pregnant women were given radioactive iron, elderly cancer ...