The Pentagon has admitted it tested chemical weapons on soldiers of color during WWII.

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micdotcom:

After a long investigation, NPR reports that 60,000 black, Puerto Rican and Japanese-American soldiers were part of a Pentagon program to see how mustard gas impacted them physically. To make things worse, the testing on them may have been done on purpose to find an “ideal” soldier.

Took ‘em long enough to fucking admit to it