BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 12.2//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Dr. Martino-Taylor&rsquo\;s presentation will cover highlights of her text\, Behind the Fog\, the first in-depth\, comprehensive examinat ion of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. She will examine the controversial military-sponsored studies and open-air field tr ials that used radioactive "simulants" that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or consen t during the Cold War in violation of their civil and human rights. Finall y\, through her research\, she will reveal the coordinated efforts of a ti ght-knit group of military scientists who advanced a four-pronged secret p rogram of human-subject radiation studies that targeted unsuspecting Ameri cans for Cold War military purposes.\nDr. Lisa Martino-Taylor earned her d octorate in Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and researche s issues related to social and environmental justice\, inequality\, social movements\, elite deviance\, and U.S. military development and testing of radiological weapons. DTEND:20171010T180000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T134249Z DTSTART:20171010T163000Z LOCATION:MI\,Livonia\,18600 Haggerty Rd SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Behind the Fog - SCII Focus Series UID:RFCALITEM638473021696852369 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Dr. Martino-Taylor&rsquo\;s presentation wi ll cover highlights of her text\, Behind the Fog\, the first in-d epth\, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiologic al weapons program. She will examine the controversial military-sponsored studies and open-air field trials that used radioactive "simulants" that e xposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances with out their knowledge or consent during the Cold War in violation of their c ivil and human rights. Finally\, through her research\, she will reveal th e coordinated efforts of a tight-knit group of military scientists who adv anced a four-pronged secret program of human-subject radiation studies tha t targeted unsuspecting Americans for Cold War military purposes.
\nDr. Lisa Martino-Taylor earned her doctorate in Sociology at the Universit y of Missouri-Columbia and researches issues related to social and environ mental justice\, inequality\, social movements\, elite deviance\, and U.S. military development and testing of radiological weapons.
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