Plutonium is high on the list of substances you absolutely do not want to be injected with under any circumstances. It’s one of the most radiologically and chemically toxic substances known to mankind, and scientific consensus is that being injected with it will lead to instant heavy metal poisoning, massive internal radiation damage, and an excruciating death within days or weeks.
But I guess Ohio house painter Albert Stevens was just built different. It was May 1945 and the Manhattan Project was in full swing. Team member Dr Joseph Gilbert Hamilton was studying plutonium and wanted to perform toxicity studies on human subjects.
