Word: 1950s
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Benda's study is one of many such government-sponsored experiments conducted across the country during the 1940s and 1950s that have been exposed in newspaper reports in recent weeks...
...Wilson and more than two dozen otherradiation experts interviewed this week sayHarvard was not a main hub for the radiationexperiments of the 1940s and 1950s...
...1950s, Warren, as part of a proposal todevelop an atomic-powered plane, considered anexperiment which would determine the radiationthreshold of humans. To develop the craft, heconsidered the possibility of using prisoners astest subjects. The Atomic Energy Commissionultimately denied the proposal on ethical grounds...
...Gilbert F. Whittemore, a formerinstructor at both Harvard and MIT, vehementlydisagrees with Masse. In an interview this week,Whittemore said scientists conducting radiationexperiments in the 1940s and 1950s were well awareof the ethical importance of a test subject'sconsent because of the publicity following theNuremberg trials after World...
...1950s study was much more directly at theFernald school...They got a license to do thatstudy from the Atomic Energy Commission. The AECreviewed that proposal and that population, andapproved of that study at that time. And MIT'Sinvolvement was to assist with the measurements atthat time, and Harvard's involvement was Benda,once again...