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The History of Radiation
Sloan Kettering researchers were experimenting with total body irradiation on patients who are already near death. The Army wanted to know how soldiers bodies would react to the radiation from an atomic bomb So it asked cancer centers to find out 40 years later a congressional investigation found out that most of the patients who received total body irradiated were not expected to recover and Most were so poor they had little to say in their treatment. AEC's public support for atomic cancer treatments put prominent medical researchers in a bind. Public got excited about treatments that either didn't exist didn't work or were being used for something other than their stated purpose. Americans desperately wanted to believe that good things could come from the atomic
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