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Pregnant women fed radioactive iron in Cold War experiments: researcher
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1:00Now PlayingThe children of hundreds of pregnant women used as human test subjects in the 1940s became ill from the experiments done while they were in the womb and even died, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and researcher Eileen Welsome. The women were given radioactive iron cocktails from a Manhattan Project site as the U.S. was working to build the world’s first atomic bombs.
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