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...Warren's involvement with the atomic-plane project likely concerned radiation containment, his area of expertise...
While considered a respectable scientist, Warren embarked on experiments that experts have questioned on the grounds of efficiency and ethics...
...1940s and early `50s, Warren considered a proposal to develop an atomic-powered airplane. To model the craft, scientists, including Warren, proposed testing humans to determine their threshold for radiation exposure...
Gilbert F. Whittemore, who is writing a book on the atomic-powered plane project, says Warren was well aware of the ethical concerns of the time...
Colleagues say most of Warren's research involved giving large doses of radiation to terminally ill cancer patients, but that such experiments were acceptable at the time. Warren was a pioneer specialist in the biological effects of radiation...