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With hitherto classified examples of cold war-era radiation tests on humans being revealed on a weekly basis, an appalled Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary said the government should compensate the victims. The department estimates that 800 people were purposely used as "nuclear guinea pigs" in an effort to study the effects of radiation. It is still not known how many of the subjects understood what was being done to them. Defense Secretary Les Aspin has ordered a review of all files on the issue, and Congress will hold hearings on the tests soon after it reconvenes this month...
When the first reports of such experiments appeared seven years ago -- in a congressional study titled American Nuclear Guinea Pigs -- the Energy Department was less than forthcoming. This time, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary says the Clinton Administration's policy is to "come clean" about the radiation tests, and she has ordered the most thorough investigation ever into the experiments. The Energy Department has also promised to declassify millions of pages of secret documents related to past activities of the nuclear-weapons industry. The worst disclosures may be yet to come...
...used its citizens as guinea pigs...
...exactness of the construction is also important because small glitches can endanger any experiment. Deegan recalls one professor, who, for reasons still unexplained, lost his frogs and with them an experiment in progress. Perfect maintenance with delicate balances is necessary for Harvard's legions of experimental guinea pigs, rats, ants and toads as well, he says...
...Times. Hell, Molly wouldn't even give me gas money to get to Rhode Island, and the powers that be at the Crimson sure weren't going to give me some guinea-pig comper to mark up. So if I was going to get some dirt about tattooing, I would need to get one myself. I couldn't, after all, pretend that my dignity prohibited me from going under the needle. I'm already marked--thrice, as luck would have it: a pathetic whale on my right ankle, a David Smith sculpture (Voltri-Bolton I) on my left ankle...