Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.6 / 5.0

A Short Review of Secret Experiments:

Calling chemical warfare "weapons of mass destruction" is misleading since they are more limited than atomic or biological weapons. Biological weapons can turn against their users. Only atomic weapons have enormous destructive capacity (p.xv). The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation documented secret experiments on humans from WW II to the present day. Biological warfare goes back to ancient times: placing decaying bodies into a water supply or launching them into a besieged fort. There is much more known... more info

Moreno unmasks the evil and human cost of government secrecy:

We are fortunate Jonathan Moreno did dare and took the time to write "Undue Risk." Not only does he inform, he has the courage to take a stand. A person of the caliber of David Kevles of California Institute of Technology says in his New York Times Book Review ". . . the historical record that he presents in ''Undue Risk'' strongly supports his contention that the rights of human subjects deserve to be held paramount over any needs of national security." Anyone familiar with the work of the President's... more info

A Short History of Secret Experiments:

This very readable book faces the uncomfortable reality of using humans for medical experiments. Government secrecy is corrosive to democracy, and is a true threat to our way of life. The use of human guinea pigs shows something rotten at the heart of society's political rulers.

Chapter 5 tells about radiation experiments. There was a need to study the health risks from inhalation or ingestion to determine the toxic levels. Releasing radioactive products into the air was part of deliberate policy that... more info

Similar Products:

In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and... by Andrew Goliszek

Lab 257 : The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ... by Michael C. Carroll

The Plutonium Files : America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by EILEEN WELSOME

The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation by George J. Annas, Michael A. Grodin

Bad BLood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition by James H. Jones, Jones

?