President Harry Truman, after the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, created this commission to "study the health impact on survivors in order to better protect Americans in case of attacks". The commission's doctors examined those injured by the bombing and suffering from radiation poisoning by photographing them, taking blood samples and semen samples. However they "...did not treat them". I hate to make the comparison, but it almost sounds like Nazi doctors conducting experiments on prisoners of war to see how long they would live under certain conditions. That was considered a war crime at Nuremberg after WWII for which we executed German officials.
(Source: The Virginian Pilot on 8/9/15. I did not record the writer or title of article)
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