The US Military has a history of using its members as guinea pigs for various experiments.

During WWII, African American as well as Puerto Ricans, and Japanese Americans military members were exposed to chemical weapons like mustard gas to determine if their skin would be more resistant to the effects than whites. Over 60,000 military service men were part of the classified experiments. These service men had no follow up healthcare or monitoring and couldn’t even tell their doctors in the military because they were sworn to secrecy and threatened with dishonorable discharge and military prison time if they said anything. In the over 20 years that this has been made public only 610 veterans were contacted for compensation.

The CIA mind control program known as MKUltra experimented with psychoactive drugs like LSD, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse and other torture on a variety of people including army service men.

Operation Crossroads was the Bikini still atomic bomb testing. Old Navy ships were used for target practice and to determine if the radioactive material could be cleaned up. Navy men were sent to ships blown up with nuclear bombs to see if they could be salvaged, they couldn’t.