Description

Behind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States’ Cold War radiological weapons program. The bookexamines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive simulants that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or consent during the Cold War. Although Western biological and chemical weapons programs have been analyzed by a number of scholars, Behind the Fog is a strong departure from the rest in that the United States radiological weapons program has been generally unknown to the public. Martino-Taylor documents the coordinated efforts of a small group of military scientists who advanced a four-pronged secret program of human-subject radiation studies that targeted unsuspecting Americans for Cold War military purposes.

This title was featured during several Pruitt-Igoe lectures at the Missouri History Museum in 2024.

Paperback | 226 pages