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Article: Gassed: British Chemical Warfare Experiments on Humans at Porton Down.(Review)
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- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Gassed: British Chemical Warfare Experiments on Humans at Porton Down By Rob Evans House of Stratus, 2000 364 pages; $33.00
IN THE UNITED STATES, IT IS A DEPRESSINGLY familiar story: Military personnel were subjected to dangerous poison gases to test the efficacy of chemical weapons or to develop defenses against them.
But as it turns out, the United States was a Johnny-come-lately in this nasty business. The British undertook dangerous human experiments for far longer and with greater intensity. And because of Britain's fabled penchant for secrecy--which has been aided and abetted by its Official Secrets Act--far less is known about the British chemical ...
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