Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments

by Ulf Schmidt

Book Overview

From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were many for whom the experience had been all but pleasant,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019929979X
• ISBN13: 9780199299799
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"