His family lived near Pruitt-Igoe, the famously neglected public housing complex in St. Louis, which is where the toxic aerosol spray was located. Classic case of "let's use the darkies as guinea pigs". The government admits that it was spraying a chemical which only simulates the dispersal of a radioactive isotope, but evidence suggests that they were actually using the real thing.
Some time after the experiment began, the government ran a drive for kids in St. Louis to send in their baby teeth "to see if they were growing strong bones 😇". Because Strontium-90 accumulates in your teeth, this would've been a convenient cover story for measuring its dispersal, since the bioassays could be analyzed in conjunction with the kids' addresses. He talks about that in this interview.
His family lived near Pruitt-Igoe, the famously neglected public housing complex in St. Louis, which is where the toxic aerosol spray was located. Classic case of "let's use the darkies as guinea pigs". The government admits that it was spraying a chemical which only simulates the dispersal of a radioactive isotope, but evidence suggests that they were actually using the real thing.
Some time after the experiment began, the government ran a drive for kids in St. Louis to send in their baby teeth "to see if they were growing strong bones 😇". Because Strontium-90 accumulates in your teeth, this would've been a convenient cover story for measuring its dispersal, since the bioassays could be analyzed in conjunction with the kids' addresses. He talks about that in this interview.
God fucking damn it :amerikkka: