Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military’s Human-Testing Program Returns

[babylonsister]

Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military’s Human-Testing Program Returns

by Heather Wokusch | March 5, 2008



The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors.

The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department’s long history of using service members and civilians as human test subjects, often without their consent or awareness.

Gas chambers in Maryland

Wray C. Forrest learned about the US military’s human-testing program the hard way. In 1973, the Army sent then 23-year-old Forrest to its Edgewood Arsenal chemical-research center in Maryland, promising patriotic service and a four-day work week.

Instead, he became one of roughly 6,720 soldiers used as Edgewood Arsenal test subjects between 1950-1975.

Forrest was given a new identity at Edgewood: Research Subject #6692. He says, "That was the number assigned to me … similar to the numbers assigned to the Jews in the concentration/death camps in Germany during WWII."

The US military tested heart drugs on Forrest, which he says were administered by IV and various types of injections. Forrest was also exposed to "contaminated drinking water, food, and various ground contaminates that permeate Edgewood Arsenal. BZ {a chemical incapacitating agent}, napalm, mustard agents, and any number of other contaminates in the ground and drinking water there, from previous testing done there by the military."

A total of 254 different chemicals were researched on soldiers at Edgewood, and Forrest notes, "We were never informed as to exactly what we were being given. We also did not sign any informed consent prior to the testing. This was a direct violation of the Geneva Convention rules for the use of humans in chemical and drug experiments/research."

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[fed-up]

1. was that the same program that released tularemia on D.C. protestors a few years ago? nt

[babylonsister]

2. Has that ever been proven? And I don't know. nt

[Mnemosyne]

3. I was ill for almost 5 months after that march.

Respiratory problem, couldn't shake it and thought I was going to die. It took 4 antibiotics before they found the right one. Never been so sick in my life.

Tularemia? No way to know for sure, doc scoffed when I told him about the bio-filters going off and saw no need to test, but I was very ill.

[crimsonblue]

4. I'm trying my hardest not to win the ad hitlerum contest...

but it gets increasingly difficult. I learned in grade school that what happened during WW2 was the worst thing mankind had ever done (lies, even back then-- Stalin killed as many as 20 million of his people... but that doesn't really get discussed in the history books) and yet we keep doing the same old shit. WTF... Gotta love the human race...