Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments was established in 1994 to investigate questions of the record of the United States government with respect to human radiation experiments. The special committee was created by President Bill Clinton in Executive Order 12891, issued January 15, 1994. Ruth Faden of The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics chaired the committee.
The thousand-page final report of the Committee was released in October 1995 at a White House ceremony.
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body. Most of these tests were performed, funded, or supervised by the United States military, Atomic Energy Commission, or various other U.S. federal government agencies. The experiments included a wide array of studies, involving things like feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children, deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities, measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, and irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, among other things. Much information about these programs was classified and kept secret. In the 1990s Eileen Welsome's reports on radiation testing for The Albuquerque Tribune prompted the creation of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments by executive order of president Bill Clinton in order to monitor government tests; it published results in 1995.
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Run Time 37 Hours 51 Minutes in 1 MP3 Audio DVD
Chapters and running times:
1 01 - Introductory Material - 12:12
2 02 - Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - 06:18
3 03 - Preface, part 1 - 30:55
4 04 - Preface, part 2 - 31:13
5 05 - Introduction, Part 1 - 28:18
6 06 - Introduction, Part 2 - 29:58
7 07 - Introduction, Part 3 - 32:23
8 08 - Introduction, Part 4 - 25:02
9 09 - Introduction, Part 5 - 32:55
10 10 - Introduction, Part 6 - 29:18
11 11 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 1, Part 1 - 21:22
12 12 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 1, Part 2 - 26:38
13 13 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 1, Part 3 - 26:47
14 14 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 1, Part 4 - 27:35
15 15 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 1, Part 5 - 16:45
16 16 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 2, Part 1 - 23:57
17 17 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 2, Part 2 - 31:30
18 18 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 2, Part 3 - 27:18
19 19 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 2, Part 4 - 19:44
20 20 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 3, Part 1 - 25:37
21 21 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 3, Part 2 - 23:10
22 22 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 3, Part 3 - 14:20
23 23 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 4, Part 1 - 23:15
24 24 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 4, Part 2 - 26:39
25 25 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 4, Part 3 - 25:18
26 26 - Case Studies, Overview - 18:01
27 27 - Case Studies, Chapter 5, Part 1 - 27:51
28 28 - Case Studies, Chapter 5, Part 2 - 39:13
29 29 - Case Studies, Chapter 5, Part 3 - 27:25
30 30 - Case Studies, Chapter 5, Part 4 - 38:42
31 31 - Case Studies, Chapter 5, Part 5 - 22:53
32 32 - Case Studies, Chapter 6, Part 1 - 21:57
33 33 - Case Studies, Chapter 6, Part 2 - 20:54
34 34 - Case Studies, Chapter 6, Part 3 - 19:32
35 35 - Case Studies, Chapter 6, Part 4 - 31:59
36 36 - Case Studies, Chapter 7, Part 1 - 23:06
37 37 - Case Studies, Chapter 7, Part 2 - 19:25
38 38 - Case Studies, Chapter 7, Part 3 - 26:27
39 39 - Case Studies, Chapter 7, Part 4 - 20:57
40 40 - Case Studies, Chapter 7, Part 5 - 15:51
41 41 - Case Studies, Chapter 8, Part 1 - 31:45
42 42 - Case Studies, Chapter 8, Part 2 - 30:09
43 43 - Case Studies, Chapter 8, Part 3 - 26:55
44 44 - Case Studies, Chapter 8, Part 4 - 30:51
45 45 - Case Studies, Chapter 8, Part 5 - 32:46
46 46 - Case Studies, Chapter 9, Part 1 - 25:23
47 47 - Case Studies, Chapter 9, Part 2 - 19:23
48 48 - Case Studies, Chapter 9, Part 3 - 31:46
49 49 - Case Studies, Chapter 10, Part 1 - 23:28
50 50 - Case Studies, Chapter 10, Part 2 - 35:27
51 51 - Case Studies, Chapter 10, Part 3 - 27:57
52 52 - Case Studies, Chapter 10, Part 4 - 38:56
53 53 - Case Studies, Chapter 10, Part 5 - 21:22
54 54 - Case Studies, Chapter 11, Part 1 - 24:02
55 55 - Case Studies, Chapter 11, Part 2 - 25:55
56 56 - Case Studies, Chapter 11, Part 3 - 27:41
57 57 - Case Studies, Chapter 11, Part 4 - 20:52
58 58 - Case Studies, Chapter 11, Part 5 - 26:32
59 59 - Case Studies, Chapter 12, Part 1 - 22:50
60 60 - Case Studies, Chapter 12, Part 2 - 29:23
61 61 - Case Studies, Chapter 12, Part 3 - 21:43
62 62 - Case Studies, Chapter 12, Part 4 - 25:21
63 63 - Case Studies, Chapter 12, Part 5 - 29:52
64 64 - Case Studies, Chapter 12, Part 6 - 20:46
65 65 - Case Studies, Chapter 13, Part 1 - 17:41
66 66 - Case Studies, Chapter 13, Part 2 - 21:06
67 67 - Case Studies, Chapter 13, Part 3 - 21:53
68 68 - Case Studies, Chapter 13, Part 4 - 27:36
69 69 - Case Studies, Chapter 13, Part 5 - 20:20
70 70 - Contemporary Projects, Overview and Chapter 14, Part 1 - 34:56
71 71 - Contemporary Projects, Chapter 14, Part 2 - 29:16
72 72 - Contemporary Projects, Chapter 15, Part 1 - 25:42
73 73 - Contemporary Projects, Chapter 15, Part 2 - 32:42
74 74 - Contemporary Projects, Chapter 15, Part 3 - 29:27
75 75 - Contemporary Projects, Chapter 16, Part 1 - 24:34
76 76 - Contemporary Projects, Chapter 16, Part 2 - 21:48
77 77 - Contemporary Projects, Chapter 16, Part 3 - 24:45
78 78 - Contemporary Projects, Chapter 16, Part 4 - 20:12
79 79 - Discussion of Part III - 21:49
80 80 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Overview - 24:06
81 81 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 17, Part 1 - 23:49
82 82 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 17, Part 2 - 21:57
83 83 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 17, Part 3 - 22:55
84 84 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 18, Part 1 - 27:51
85 85 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 18, Part 2 - 23:49
86 86 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 18, Part 3 - 27:20
87 87 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 18, Part 4 - 19:05
88 88 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 18, Part 5 - 23:49
89 89 - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future, Chapter 18, Part 6 - 14:09
90 90 - Statement by Committee Member Jay Katz - 24:51