US Government Tested Mustard Gas On Troops Based on Race

“It felt like you were on fire,” a black U.S. Army veteran tells NPR of being a test subject for the effects of mustard gas in a once-secret government program to determine the effects of chemical weapons on different races.

Sean Nevins
By Sean Nevins
Segregated troops practice movement in protective gear at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland in the early 1940s.

WASHINGTON --- The U.S. Army had a secret program to test mustard gas and other chemical agents on U.S. troops during World War II. The program was declassified in 1993, and it was revealed in 2008 that the experiments had been race-based. On Monday, NPR reporter Caitlin Dickerson released an investigative report with interviews of some of the

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Plan For Destruction Of Syria’s Chemical Weapons

The exact text of the plan remains classified, but Syrian chemical weapons will be destroyed at sea aboard a U.S. ship.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has finalized its plan for the destruction of Syria's stockpile of weapons and precursor chemicals, with the most toxic material to be destroyed at sea aboard a U.S. ship. But factors beyond the Nobel Peace Prize-winning watchdog's control could lead to

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