Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on HumansFrom the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk exposes a variety of government policies and specific cases, includingplutonium injections to unwilling hospital patients, and even the attempted recruitment of Nazi medical scientists bythe U.S. government after World War II. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Our Science Our Boys | 13 |
Chapter 3 Nurembergs Shadow | 53 |
Chapter 4 Deals With Devils | 87 |
Chapter 5 The Radiation Experiments | 119 |
Chapter 6 The Pentagon Meets the Nuremberg Code | 157 |
Chapter 7 In the Wilderness | 189 |
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