The government secretly injected a house painter with plutonium
Albert Stevens survived the highest known radiation dose: 6,400 rem over 20 years after a secret plutonium injection.
On May 14, 1945, doctors at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco injected Albert Stevens, an Ohio-born house painter, with plutonium without telling him. Stevens had checked in with what doctors diagnosed as terminal stomach cancer. Manhattan Project researchers wa…
