For Immediate Release
March 6, 2008

Breaking Faith: The Nuremberg Code and U.S. Experimentation in the Cold War

Learn how U.S. citizens have been unwitting subjects of experimentation.

In 1945-46, Nazi War criminals were being tried for crimes under an allied tribunal set up at Nuremberg, Germany. When the scientists and doctors who participated in human experiments on Jews and others in the concentration camp came up for trial, the Nuremberg Code was articulated to express the rules that would govern future human subject experiments. Since the beginning of the Cold War, the U.S. has consistently violated that code in the name of national security. U.S. citizens have been unwitting subjects of experiments involving biowarfare, radiation, and psychological experiments many of them conducted under the CIA program MKULTRA. Universities across America have been complicit in those programs.

As part of the Cañada College Humanities and Social Science Faculty Lecture Series, Professor Carlson will discuss the ethics of human experimentation and why it matters today. The lecture will be held on Monday, March 24 at 2 p.m. in Building 3, Room 148.

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