[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point" Naval Shipyard (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments
Operations at a cold war lab exposed at least 1,073 people to radiation. Risks to the nearby communities persist

By Chris Roberts
San Francisco [CA] Public Press
November, 2024


In September 1956, Cpl Eldridge Jones found himself atop a sunbaked roof at an old army camp about an hour outside San Francisco, shoveling radioactive dirt.

Too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam, Jones never saw combat. Instead, he served in the cold war, where the threats to his life were all American.

The previous year, Jones was one of thousands of US troops directly exposed to radiation during aboveground nuclear weapons tests in the Nevada desert.

Now he was being exposed again, this time to lab-made “simulated nuclear fallout”, material that emitted some of the same ionizing radiation as the atomic bomb. The exercise at Camp Stoneman, near Pittsburg, California, was one of many in a years-long program conducted by a key military research facility, headquartered at a navy shipyard in a predominantly Black working-class neighborhood in San Francisco.

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For the entire article, see 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/san-francisco-navy-lab-human-radiatio

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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