1st Edition
Behind the Fog How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans
INTRODUCTION
I: ATOMIC WORLD
A Culture of Secrecy
Manhattan Project Phase Two- Radiological Weapons Experimentation
II: THE RADIUM LEGACY
III: BLINDED BY SCIENCE
Radioactive Warfare
IV: THE MILITARIZED ACADEMY
Militarization of the Academy
Stanford University/Stanford Research Institute
V: STRUCTURE OF DECEIT
PHS, NIH and Embedded Studies
No Turning Back
Military Crosshairs
Final Weapons Targets
Fernald School
VI: MILITARY ANALOGS
Hidden in Plain View
Target One: Minneapolis
St. Louis Army Chemical Corps Experiments
Winnipeg, Canada
Leighton Effects
A Parallel Study
A Dubious Narrative
The National Research Council Reviews Army Data
An Unlikely Champion
Parsons and the Army: A Lucrative Partnership
VII: THE ARMY CHEMICAL CORPS AND OPEN-AIR FIELD STUDIES
The St. Louis Open-Air Dispersion Study- Part Two
The Pruitt-Igoe Public Housing Complex
St. Louis Part II
SRI and the Atomic Veterans
Post-Study Claims by Officials
VIII: IN THIS HOUSE: EMBEDDEDNESS AND THE MILITARY RADIATION STUDIES
AEC Isotopes Project
Dual-Use Technology
Gabriel and Sunshine
The Vanderbilt Radiation Studies
IX: FALLOUT "SIMULANT" TESTING
Fallout Simulants
Canadian and U.K. Studies
U.S. Open Air Radiation Experiments
X: DEVIANCE, SECRECY, AND CLOSED WORLDS
Secrecy and Group Conformity
Closed World Dynamics
Control of Discourse
Dehumanization
CONCLUSION
After the Dust has Settled
A Tangle of Objectives
BIBLIOGRAPHY
METHODOLOGY AND AFTERWORD
Components for Future Exploration
APPENDIX A: ABBREVIATIONS LIST
INDEX
Biography
Lisa Martino-Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Louis Community College. Martino-Taylor earned her doctorate in Sociology at the University of Missouri–Columbia and researches issues related to power, elite deviance, social and environmental justice, and U.S. military development and testing of radiological weapons.
