U.S. military planners were told that they could send troops "immediately" into cities struck by atomic bombs, and Groves dismissed reports of radiation poisoning in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as ...

Government abuse When the U.S. Military Gave People Radiation Poisoning "We did a lot of field studies and got nothing to show for it," said one U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory ...

Exposure to radiation poisoning from a nuclear attack would put an estimated 300 million Americans at risk within four days of detonation, according to a recent Scientific American report.

Chernobyl released about 400 times more radiation than the U.S. atom bomb dropped over Hiroshima, according to radiation experts. But the death toll attributed to Chernobyl is far lower, around 50 ...

Cpl. Eldridge Jones was an example of how much radiation the government might expose a single person to. He was deployed with the U.S. Army's 50th Chemical Platoon to five different nuclear tests ...