Revisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Human Product 12 - The Man Secretly Injected With Plutonium

 

In 1945, Ebb Cade survived a car accident near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, only to become part of a secret experiment. Without his consent, doctors injected him with plutonium to study how radiation moved through the human body. Also known as "Human Product 12,” Cade became the first of 18 victims of one of the most disturbing human radiation experiments in American history.