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Secret World War II Chemical Experiments Tested Troops By Race

These historical photographs depict the forearms of human test subjects after being exposed to nitrogen mustard and lewisite agents in World War II experiments conducted at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy of the Naval Research Laboratory)
These historical photographs depict the forearms of human test subjects after being exposed to nitrogen mustard and lewisite agents in World War II experiments conducted at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy of the Naval Research Laboratory)

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