triggering the advisory committee on human radiation experiments was a series of pulitzer prize winning investigative reports by eileen welsome in "the albuquerque tribune", entitled "the plutonium experiment", published as a series starting on november 15, 1993. this report was different than markey's, because welsome revealed the names of the people injected with plutonium. welsome originally discovered the experiments while sifting through some documents at kirtland air force base in albuquerque in the spring of 1987. what got her curiosity was a report on radioactive animal carcasses. the report identified the victims only by code names. after receiving the 1994 pulitzer prize for her article, welsome would go on to publish much more information in 1999 in a book titled "the plutonium files: america's secret medical experiments in the cold war".