Your contribution…

This last week, I want you to make a contribution to the future of this course and to one another. Select one website, book, or organization that has spoken to any of the problems/issues in this course and inspired you. It cannot be one that was assigned for this course... if you don't know of any, go find one! Post the link on your blog (if a book, post a link to its Amazon page). Describe what it is, what you learned from it, how it speaks to the specific issue we tackled in this course, and what you would hope other students would gain from it.

After reading one of the articles in the book Life and Death Matters regarding the radiation exposure the people of the Marshallese Islands suffered due to the Atomic Bomb testings. While looking for websites that speak out against war and radiation in the US and the effects on the American people, I came across The Human Radiation Experiments website. This website has several main issues dealing with radiation use in the United States as a method of prevention against any nuclear attacks that resulted from the Cold War and World War II. Alan R. Cantwell, Jr. MD explains the different ways the United States used its people as guine pigs to experiment on. This was done through disinformation and Nuclear Fallout of testing nuclear missles. With this the government miscommunicted the dangers of exposure to radiation contamination through fallout and experiments. Another form the US used the people of america as guine pigs is through secret experimental uses of radiation . In which many of the people were injected with radiation to test its effects on the human body. In were many times it was tested on children like Injecting 7 newborns (six were Black) with radioactive iodine, explains Cantwell. Cantwell also details the effect of Uranium on the miners who worked for Atomic Energ Commision (AEC) in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. This website is very informative and helpful in regards to the use of the United States of its own people to test the limits of radiation on the human body that were conducted secretly and with the use of misinformation to the people of America.

http://www.whale.to/a/cantwell9.html