Military experiments on civilians?

[JazzRoc]

Quote:Although it gave space to neglect the meat:

Quote:they would never hurt their 'own populations'.

Maybe you (plural) ought to reconsider whether your "dot-joining" is all there is to THINKING.

In a nutshell, the Allied Cold War Dilemma was this: "How do we defend against all-out attack without terrifying our own populations?" - when confronted by an enemy whose intercontinental ballistic missiles could deliver nuclear weapons, and/or lethal toxins and/or biological agents.

Do nothing? They'd be fired... hell, I would have fired them... So what to do?

In Britain (I know nothing about the States), what they did was conduct a whole series of tests using i) water ii) marker dye iii) KILLED bacteria of a specific strain which could be identified later by attachment to a radioactively-labelled antibody.

ONLY A FOOL would construe that as "hurting their own population".

Are you REALLY THAT FOOL? :(