For decades, a select handful of veterans from the U.S. military have been forced to remain quiet about a terribly gruesome set of human experiments conducted during the Cold War. They’ve faced a ...

Apropos Lewis Lapham’s article yesterday about government efforts to keep people from taking drugs, Raffi Khatchadourian has a memorable New Yorker piece about the Army giving them to people.

OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - The army and CIA experimented on thousands of soldiers with dangerous drugs during the Cold War, dosing them with mescaline and other chemicals that left them with lasting ...

For years, U.S. defense agencies conducted chemical and biological testing on often-unwitting soldiers, many of whom complained of long-lasting health problems as a result of those experiments. After ...

The New Yorker this week published an extensive and utterly fascinating piece on Colonel James S. Ketchum — a psychiatrist who led the US military’s drug experiments on volunteer soldiers during the ...