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the same period of time, and the levels in human bone.
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They didn't know that.
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They didn't know that at the time they designed the bombs,
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so that they didn't know that strontium-90 would compete with
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calcium to be fixed within bone in the human body.
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But the Atomic Energy Commission created this clandestine operation
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where they collected dead bodies from 15,000 people around the world
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and they sent them to labs in Chicago
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and to Lamont Laboratory and to Columbia University,
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where they were tested.
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And every bone they tested found strontium-90 in it.
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And it really woke them up.