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America's broken promise to veterans who survived race-based chemical weapons testing in WWII - Boing Boing

30.6.15

America's broken promise to veterans who survived race-based chemical weapons testing in WWII - Boing Boing: The formerly classified government program that tested chemical weapons on our own troops was first made public in the early 1990s, but the revelation that the experiments segregated participants by race is sparking new outrage.

When records of the tests were declassified in the early 1990s, the Veterans Administration promised it would find some 4,000 veterans who survived, and offer them compensation. Very few of these survivors, who experience serious health problems and disabilities, have received any aid.

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