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US Army Radiated St. Louis with Zinc Cadmium Sulfide and Radium 226
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:56 am
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:56 am
Army used St. Louis as Nuclear Fallout Test Site
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The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, a researcher has claimed.
While it was known that the government sprayed 'harmless' zinc cadmium silfide particles over the general population in St Louis, Professor Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist at St. Louis Community College, claims that a radioactive additive was also mixed with the compound.
She has accrued detailed descriptions as well as photographs of the spraying which exposed the unwitting public, predominantly in low-income and minority communities, to radioactive particles.
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In St Louis, the Army put chemical sprayers on buildings, like schools and public housing projects, and mounted them in station wagons for mobile use.
Despite the extent of the experiment, local politicians were not notified about the content of the testing. The people of St Louis were told that the Army was testing smoke screens to protect cities from a Russian attack.
'It was pretty shocking. The level of duplicity and secrecy. Clearly they went to great lengths to deceive people,' Professor Martino-Taylor said.
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one of the compounds that was sprayed upon the public was called 'FP2266', according to the army's documents, and was manufactured by US Radium. The compound, also known as Radium 226, was the same one that killed and sickened many of the US Radium workers.
The Army has admitted that it added a fluorescent substance to the 'harmless' compound, but whether or not the additive was radioactive remains classified.
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Senator Roy Blunt called the findings 'absolutely shocking.'
'The idea that thousands of Missourians were unwillingly exposed to harmful materials in order to determine their health effects is absolutely shocking. It should come as no surprise that these individuals and their families are demanding answers of government officials,' Senator Blunt said.
This post was edited on 5/30/14 at 10:00 am
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Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:57 am to mizzoukills
Is that what spawned Branson?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:58 am to mizzoukills
YEah, I'm not sure that I believe all that.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:58 am to LSUballs
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Is that what spawned Branson?
no it spawned East St. Louis
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:58 am to mizzoukills
St. Louis - The Gateway to Lymphoma.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 9:59 am to mizzoukills
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US Army Radiated St. Louis with Zinc Cadmium Sulfide and Radium 226
Is that why they can't play little league baseball in Bridgeton right now?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:00 am to supadave3
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YEah, I'm not sure that I believe all that.
Well, Senator Roy Blunt from Missouri verified it to be true, so there's no reason to not believe it.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:01 am to LSUballs
LSUballs
Yes.
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Is that what spawned Branson?
Yes.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:01 am to LSUballs
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Is that what spawned Branson?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:02 am to upgrayedd
My uncle is in the Chemical Corps for the Army. You don't want to know the amount of chemical weapons cache around the US he has been cleaning up for the last 20 years.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:03 am to RadTiger
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You don't want to know the amount of chemical weapons cache around the US
What if we do want to know though? Do we advance to phase two of your cryptic posts?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:03 am to mizzoukills
Sounds like we need to fire the program up again.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:03 am to RadTiger
Chemical and bio weapons scare me more than nukes.
This post was edited on 5/30/14 at 10:10 am
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:05 am to RadTiger
Lol you don't know shart
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:06 am to RadTiger
I worked for a company that did some UXO work on military bases. They had a project on a base in Utah where there were hundreds of drums of mustard gas buried in the back 40. The kicker was that they decided to bury a bunch of bombs on top of them as well. Pretty tough cleanup work.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:07 am to mizzoukills
If this was true wouldn't it be easy to walk around town with a geiger counter and see elevated levels?
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:08 am to RadTiger
if they only knew what was underground in and around Redstone Aresenal.... 
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:11 am to wickowick
One does not simply walk around town in St Louis. Radiation is the slow way to die there.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:21 am to Mizzoufan26
Downtown St. Louis seemed pretty safe while I was there.
I stayed at the Hyatt and walked all around; it was quite nice actually.
I stayed at the Hyatt and walked all around; it was quite nice actually.
Posted on 5/30/14 at 10:28 am to Mizzoufan26
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What if we do want to know though? Do we advance to phase two of your cryptic posts?
This is from the CDC.
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The amount of stockpiled chemical warfare agents in the United States is thought to have reached nearly 40,000 tons by 1968. These chemical warfare agents were stored in bulk containers or as assembled weapons and ammunition at nine sites in the United States.
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In 1986 as part of PL 99-145 (50 USC 1521), Congress required that all stockpiles of U.S. chemical warfare agents be destroyed. U.S. stockpiles totaled approximately 30,500 tons, according to the 1997 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inventory. Nonstockpile chemical warfare items, such as recovered chemical weapons and chemical agent identification sets, were estimated to exist at more than 200 sites in the United States and its territories.
This is a Wiki article about his work
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The United States Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) is a major sub-command of the United States Army Materiel Command (AMC) and a reporting element of the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology. Its role is to enhance national security by securely storing and ultimately eliminating U.S. chemical warfare materiel, while protecting the work force, the public and the environment to the maximum extent.
CMA leads the world in chemical weapons destruction with a demonstrated history of safely storing, recovering, assessing and destroying U.S. chemical weapons and related materials. CMA manages destruction of all U.S. chemical weapons stockpiles except for the two that fall under the Department of Defense Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives neutralization program. Through its Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP), CMA works with local, state and federal emergency preparedness and response agencies at chemical weapon stockpile locations.
The Army operates its disposal activities under congressional direction. Federal agencies and the independent National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council, together with equivalent agencies at the state and local level, also are involved in regulation and oversight of aspects of the destruction program with the exception of fiscal management.
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