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Article: President Clinton Signs Executive Order Forming Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 18, 1994
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Clinton Administration
today continued efforts to uncover the nature and extent of
government-sponsored experiments on individuals involving intentional
exposure to ionizing radiation.
The President today released an Executive Order that will
establish an Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
The Advisory Committee, to be made up of outside-government
experts in medicine, science and ethics, will provide to the
Human Radiation Interagency Working Group advice and recommendations
on human radiation experiments conducted by the government since
the 1940s. This Advisory Committee shall comply with the terms
of the Federal Advisory ...