The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments

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A super soldier program produces Marvel superhero Wolverine in the movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," along with rivals Sabretooth and Weapon XI. Now LiveScience looks back on real experiments that the U.S. government ran on soldiers and citizens to advance the science of war.

The military didn't replicate Wolverine's indestructible skeleton and retractable claws. Rather, they shot accident victims up with plutonium, tested nerve gas on sailors, and tried out ESP. While some of the tests seem outlandish in hindsight, the military continues to push the envelope in seeking new warfare techniques based on cutting-edge science and technology.

"My measure of success is that the International Olympic Committee bans everything we do," said Michael Goldblatt, former head of DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, while talking with reporters. And that's not a Hollywood script.

http://www.livescience.com/history/090429-military-experiment.html

OMFG...I knew about some of these. And people wonder why I don't trust the government.

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1. And don't forget this old but very relevent swine flu injection.

"Swine flu, a look back at 1976. A Fort Dix army recruit, David Lewis, 19, died 24 hours after complaining to his drill instructor that he felt tired and weak with no indication that his weakness was severe enough for medical attention. Two weeks later, four other fellow soldiers were hospitalized for the same thing at the Army base in Burlington County, New Jersey. All four survived.

It was founded that 500 other soldiers fell victim to swine flu but did not fall ill in the manner that the others had. However many Americans were killed or seriously injured by the inoculation the government gave them to stave off the virus." http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1682868/swine_flu_from_new_jerseys_1976_to.html

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2. And these are just the ones that have been declassified.

Just the tip of the iceberg,imo.