Resources on Experiments Performed by

the Atomic Energy Commission and the

Department of Defense

Dr. William Sweet, Massachusetts General Hospital, a researcher with the Boston Project Uranium Injections

General Resources from the Department of Energy

• Department of Energy Homepage
• Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information Homepage
• DOE Protecting Human Subjects Program

DOE Resources on Human Radiation Experiments

• DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments (OHRE)
• Chapter 5: Experiments with Plutonium, Uranium, and Polonium
• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - FinalReport
• Atomic Veterans: Human Experimentation with Atomic Bomb Tests
• HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS: The Department of Energy Roadmap to the
Project
• DOE Roadmap
• HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS: The Department of Energy Roadmap to the
Story and the Records Supplement: List of Experiments
• Summary of Agency Records Retrieval Interim Report of the Advisory Committee on
Human Radiation Experiments. Description of records of agencies involved with
radiation experiments (Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense,
Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of
Veteran Affairs, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Government Documents
• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Public Meeting Thursday,
April 21, 1994
• Selected descriptions of AEC experiments (taken from the OHRE database)
Searchable Databases
• HREX Human Radiation Experiments Information Management System
• Open Net The Department of Energy's guide to declassified documents
• Opennet (same page on another server)
o Search form for Opennet
o DOE Historical Records Review Database
• DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information Database of Human Radiation
Experiments classified by type of experiment. (Note: The links and search engine
were not operative 2/3/97.)

Specific Experiments
The Vanderbilt Study

Between 1945-1949, 820 poor pregnant Caucasian women were given tracer doses of
radioactive iron in experiments performed at Vanderbilt University. Office of Human
Radiation Experiments Oral Histories of Dr. Karl Z. Morgan and Waldo E. Cohn provide
background on this experiment. See also Chapter 7 Conclusion of the Advisory Committee on
Human Radiation Experiments Final Report.

Fernald State School

• Chapter 7: The Studies at the Fernald School

• Task Force Reports on Fernald Studies by Abhilash R. Vaishnav, The Tech, MIT
• Fernald Task Force Finds No Significant Health Effects From 1950s Nutritional
Studies Tracing Calcium, Iron Uptake from The Tech, MIT

Experiments by the Department of Defense

• Nuclear Test Personnel Review (NTPR)

Other Sources
• Documents Pertaining to Human Radiation Experiments furnished by Dr. David
Egilman, Brown University. Contains ACHRE and other documents, as well as
critiquesof and essays on ACHRE and other reports, and a section of documents from
and essays the University of Cincinnati Radiation Experiments under Dr. Eugene
Saenger
• Duck and Cover(up): U. S. Radiation Testing on Humans
• Energy Enters Guilty Plea from The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists; by Arjun Makhijani;
includes descriptions of plutonium experiments
• Subjected to Science by David Pacchioli (Research/Penn State, Vol. 17, no. 1). Refers
to several radiation experiments; includes an interview with Susan Lederer
• The Radiation Experiments: In Search of Balance from Energizer
 • THE WIDENING FALLOUT Government disclosures about radiation tests breed
complaints about other nuclear experiments from Time, January 17, 1994 VOL. 143
NO. 2
• Berkeley Performed Most Radiation Tests by Jeff Elliott, Albion Monitor News

Bibliography
• Select Bibliography of Print Sources by Steven Hale
• Whole-Body Irradiation National Library of Medicine Current Bibliographies in
Medicine CBM 95-5

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