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
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.