Edgewood Arsenal

Soldiers dosed with everything in the cabinet, 1948–1975. The consent forms were creative.

Edgewood Arsenal, 1948-1975: the Army's chemical-warfare human experiments — about 7,000 enlisted volunteers exposed to nerve agents, BZ, LSD, and hundreds of compounds, under consent standards later found wanting. Documented: the Army's own reviews, a 1975 congressional inquiry, the National Academy of Sciences follow-up studies, and Ketchum's insider memoir. Veterans sued for decades over health monitoring (Vietnam Veterans of America v. CIA, settled obligations 2010s). The suburban-Maryland fact that makes MKULTRA's rural cousins believable.