As Congress considers payments to victims of Cold War-era nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region, people who were targeted for secret government testing from that same time period believe they’re due compensation, too.

As Congress considers payments to victims of Cold War-era nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region, people who were targeted for secret government testing from that same time period believe they’re due compensation, too.

  • Drusas
    30•1 year ago

    The government released documents in 1994 revealing details about the spraying. And St. Louis wasn’t alone in being subjected to secretive Cold War-era testing. Similar spraying occurred at nearly three dozen other locations.

    There were other types of secret testing. In a 2017 book, St. Louis sociologist Lisa Martino-Taylor cited documents obtained through a FOIA request to detail how pregnant women in several cities were given doses of radioactive iron during prenatal visits to determine how much was absorbed into the blood of the mothers and babies. The government also created radiation fields inside buildings, including a California high school.

    The area of the testing in St. Louis was described in Army documents as “a densely populated slum district.” About three-quarters of the residents were Black.

    Jesus christ, there’s always some new atrocity we’re learning about.

    • Madison_rogueOP
      8•1 year ago

      And it totally falls in line with institutionalized racism. Ugh, I hate seeing shit like this…I really do. I know the United States can do better, and it’s frustrating that some Americans will ignore the atrocities the government has done to their own people. Going even as far as questioning your patriotism because you point this out, or criticize the government for doing these things.

      • @SheeEttinEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        It is, but even if anyone wanted to hold the US accountable, what are they going to do?

        • @DeathsEmbrace
          1•1 year ago

          Or else the hague would jail Dick Cheney and George Bush.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      how pregnant women in several cities were given doses of radioactive iron during prenatal visits to determine how much was absorbed into the blood of the mothers and babies.

      That’s a certified Great Satan moment there folks.