《THE PLUTONIUM FILES》

Prologue1

PART ONE: THE "PRODUCT"13

1. The Acid Taste of Plutonium15

2. The Rad Lab20

3. 1942: The Met Lab32

4. A Tolerable Dose42

5. The Manhattan Project Is Launched55

6. Plutonium Rising65

7. Planning the Experiment75

8. Ebb Cade82

9. Next in Line: Arthur and Albert88

10.Trinity Site97

11. A "Small Piece of the Sun"105

12. The Quest Continues120

13. The Rochester Production Line124

14. A Misdiagnosed Housewife136

15. Chicago: Upping the Dose146

16. Postwar Berkeley: The Final Injections149

PART TWO: ATOMIC UTOPIA163

17.At a Crossroads165

18. Comings and Goings178

19. The AEC and the Politics of Secrecy189

20. Shields Warren: "Patriotic Enough to Lie"197

21. "Wrapped in the Flag"207

22. The Vanderbilt Women219

23. The Fernald boys229

PART THREE: THE PROVING GROUND237

24.Stalin's Labor Day Surprise239

25. The First GI Guinea Pigs249

26. "Hot Particles"255

27. Scorched Earth Maneuvers261

28. Citizen Volunteers270

29. The Cloud Samplers272

30. Dispatch from Ground Zero285

31. The Inverted Mushroom290

32. Body-snatching Patriots299

PART FOUR: "THE BUCHENWALD TOUCH"315

33."Mice or Men?"317

34. Houston's "Paperclip" Doctor330

35. Cincinnati's Battlefield337

36. The Chambers of Oak Ridge352

37. Captive Volunteers: Prisoners in Oregon and Washington362

38. The Plutonium Experiment: Phase Two383

39. "Tragic Deaths Full of Pity and Sorrow"403

PART FIVE: THE RECKONING417

40."We're Coming Clean"419

41. Revelations and Tribulations434

42. January 1994: The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments447

43. Harvest of Sorrow452

44. Closing the Book459

45. A Presidential Apology469

46. "Never Again"471

47. Whitewashes, Red Herrings, and Cold Cash475

Epilogue481

Acknowledgments490

Notes494

Major Sources Used in Notes552

Index569