I&#x27;m sure there were strong suspicions. The practices of the era were... questionable in many moral, ethical and legal dimensions.<p>(<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nsarchive.gwu.edu&#x2F;radiation&#x2F;dir&#x2F;mstreet&#x2F;commeet&#x2F;meet1&#x2F;brief1&#x2F;br1n.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nsarchive.gwu.edu&#x2F;radiation&#x2F;dir&#x2F;mstreet&#x2F;commeet&#x2F;meet1...</a>)<p>&quot;From 1963 to 1965, at the Atomic Energy Commission National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, radioactive iodine was purposely released on seven separate occasions. In one of these experiments,
seven human subjects drank milk from cows which had grazed on iodine-contaminated land. This experiment was designed to measure the passage of iodine through the food chain into the thyroids of
human subjects. In a second experiment, three human subjects were placed on the pasture during iodine release, and seven subjects were placed on the pasture in a third experiment. In addition, &quot;several&quot; individuals were contaminated during yet another experiment when vials of radioactive iodine accidentally broke. Cows grazed on contaminated land and their milk was counted in four of the experiments; in the remaining three, radiation measurements were made only int he pasture. (Category 10.001, Number 173).&quot;<p>&quot;During the 1960s, at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 57 normal adults were fed microscopic spheres containing radioactive uranium and manganese. These experiments were designed to determine how fast such spheres would pass through the human body after ingestion. It was believed that particles of this size could be produced by the atmospheric reentry and burnup of rockets propelled by nuclear reactors, or of radioactive power supplies. (Category 1.003, Number 106).&quot;<p>&quot;From 1961 to 1963, at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, 102 human subjects were fed real fallout from the Nevada Test Site; simulated fallout particles that contained strontium, barium, or cesium; or solutions of strontium and cesium. This experiment was designed to measure human absorption and retention of these radioactive substances. (Category 11.001, Number 186, Part A).&quot;