Reddit mentions of The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

"In a 1949 operation called the "Green Run," the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) released iodine-131 and xenon-133 into the atmosphere near the Hanford site in Washington, which contaminated a 500,000-acre (2,000 km2) area containing three small towns.[62]"

"In 1962, the Hanford site again released I-131, stationing test subjects along its path to record its effect on them. The AEC also recruited Hanford volunteers to ingest milk contaminated with I-131 during this time.[63"

"The University of California Hospital in San Francisco exposed 29 patients, some with rheumatoid arthritis, to total body irradiation (100-300 rad dose) to obtain data for the military.[80]"

"In another study at the Walter E. Fernald State School, in 1956, researchers gave mentally disabled children radioactive calcium orally and intravenously. They also injected radioactive chemicals into malnourished babies and then collected cerebrospinal fluidfor analysis from their brains and spines. [79][86]"

"In a 1967 study that was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, pregnant women were injected with radioactive cortisolto see if it would cross the placental barrier and affect the fetuses.[88]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Committee_on_Human_Radiation_Experiments

https://www.amazon.com/Plutonium-Files-Americas-Medical-Experiments/dp/0385319541

None of these people consented to being exposed to nuclear materials,you could almost say "they were lied to"

Not quite the same experiments, but the definitive book on this sort of chicanery is The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War, which I strongly recommend.

The sheer scale of dishonesty was staggering - there were medical experiments where hundreds or thousands of people were given legitimate treatment with a side of radioactive material.

If this kind of thing interests you, you might consider reading the plutonium files.
It is entirely about how the us government knowingly irradiated people despite knowing the effects, to "see what would happen."

I'm reading Eileen Welsome's Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War right now. You might find it equally revolting/eye-opening.

Apparently you can read the first chapter for free on Amazon.

I think it's important to dispel any notion of ethical/moral purity in our country. Puts things in perspective.