Ministers have failed to deny that British and Commonwealth troops were deliberately exposed to radiation during Cold War weapons tests. They have told Parliament that they do not know whether ...

[5] A most valuable radiation study on human beings A persistent puzzle surrounds the question of intentionality. In a 1982 New York Times interview, Gene Curbow (the former weather technician during ...

“Everybody seems to think that we are skunks, saber-rattlers, and warmongers.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower, responding to the global outrage after the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll, ...

The sprawling abandoned naval base, in San Francisco’s southeast waterfront Bayview neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real […] The post Exposed Part One: The Human Radiation ...

A clip from a 1994 Newsnight programme in which the BBC's Peter Marshall investigates US radiation experiments on unwitting subjects during the Cold War era. Some of these test subjects were hospital ...

For decades the MoD has denied using unwitting servicemen as “guinea pigs” in radiation experiments during the race to build a nuclear bomb. But the widow of one Cold War pilot has blown that claim ...

Shocking declassified files have revealed how the US government intentionally injected Americans with radioactive substances without their knowledge or consent. This happened to 18 hospital patients ...

In 1979, the National Commission published The Belmont Report, which identifies three basic principles for the ethical conduct of research with human subjects: respect for persons, beneficence, and ...

Explore 25 human experiments too disturbing to ignore. From Tuskegee to Nazi camps, discover the shocking medical atrocities ...

An Esa experiment carried out by astronauts on the ISS has found the cosmos is less hostile to space travellers than expected. It had been thought that cosmic radiation may severely limit the time an ...