1974 probe tracked plutonium injections in secret human trials
Families discovered years later that the government sampled the bones of dead children for radiation data, a program listed in a National Archives catalogue
By Eleanor Voss ·
Experiments
Plutonium injections and Project Sunshine populate 1994 federal audit
Secret injections and radioactive fallout scarred thousands of citizens before Ruth Faden's committee spent years indexing the wreckage in a 1994 federal audit.
By June Hargrove ·
AEC officials injected humans with plutonium
Patients were injected with plutonium and children's tissues were harvested in secret programs that the Atomic Energy Commission tracked in its internal correspondence.
By June Hargrove ·
British Military Chiefs Managed Biological Warfare in the Far East
Colonial authorities in the Far East served as facilitators for biological warfare experiments while military leaders carefully calibrated the truth shared with the public.
By Miriam Adler ·
British state prioritized biological weapons amid 1950 Korea crisis
Actual policy on biological weapons remains a gap in the record, as a 1950 minute to the Chiefs of Staff exists only as an administrative footprint in the National Archives.
By Eleanor Voss ·
British Military Recruited Scientists to Deploy Disease in 1947
Scientists were recruited to operate in total secrecy at Porton Down, where the British military built the infrastructure to deploy pathogens as a pillar of post-war security.
By Miriam Adler ·
Defence Officials Ran Secret Bio-Warfare Field Trials for 13 Years
Secret biological warfare field trials ran for 13 years, with technical reports on the organisms involved feeding a chain of command up to the Minister's office.
By June Hargrove ·
British Ministers Oversaw 11-Year Biological Warfare Effort
Eleven years of biological warfare findings remain a gap in the public record despite evidence that results reached the Minister's Office.
By June Hargrove ·
US government coded human behavior to predict future violence
Subjects were translated into numerical variables to evaluate their "dangerousness," but the identities of those measured remain a gap in the record.
By Miriam Adler ·
UK officials weaponized human bodies in 1952 biological warfare policy
Service members were exposed to lethal agents under the guise of tests while the government hid its biological weapons program from the public for decades.
By Miriam Adler ·
British Military Budgeted for Biological Warfare in 1947
Human costs and the populations tested remain unlisted in budget files that treated infectious agents as administrative equipment during the British withdrawal from India.
By Miriam Adler ·
British Defence Ministry Lacked Staff to Build a Plague
British officials in 1947 struggled to recruit the scientific staff needed to scale a biological catastrophe and exploit the human body as a vulnerability.
By Miriam Adler ·
British State Expanded 7,000-Acre Biological Weapons Site
Hidden within the Wiltshire countryside, the state increased its biological warfare capacity through secret hiring and new laboratory construction.
By Eleanor Voss ·
British Military Leaders Debated Chemical and Biological Warfare
Biological agents and Soviet air defenses reached the ears of Britain's most senior officers alongside mundane concerns over tarmac surfacing in Aden and family passages to Cyprus.
By June Hargrove ·
British High Command Faced Bio-Warfare Staff Shortage in 1947
Hidden dialogues from 1947 leave it unclear which scientists were recruited or what living materials were brought in to satisfy the military's hunger for biological warfare research.
By Miriam Adler ·
Sidney Gottlieb Fought to Continue Testing Drugs on Unwitting Americans
Unwitting U.S. citizens were administered behavior-altering substances in 'slipshod' safehouses during an illegal program whose 1975 freeze may never have been lifted.
By June Hargrove ·