Human experimentsAtlas

Timeline

1. 1939 · eventCoerced medical experiments expanded under National Socialism
2. 1946 · investigationNuremberg medical trials prosecuted Nazi human experimenters
3. 1951 · eventHolmesburg Prison medical testing on inmates expanded
4. 1953 · eventCIA launched Project MK-Ultra behavioral experiments
5. 1973 · eventCIA ordered MK-Ultra halted and many records destroyed
6. 1974 · eventHolmesburg Prison human experimentation programs ended
7. 1975 · investigationCongressional probes publicly exposed CIA human behavioral experiments
8. 1994 · investigationAdvisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments was created
9. 1995 · document_releaseACHRE released its final report on human radiation experiments
10. 1995 · document_releaseDOE openness project published radiation-experiment record roadmaps
11. 1998 · document_releaseHornblum published Acres of Skin on Holmesburg experiments
12. 2010 · amplificationOnline lists and videos popularized catalogs of unethical human experiments
13. 2016 · document_releaseResearchers published analysis of National Socialism experiment victims
14. 2020 · amplificationYouTube explainers amplified MK-Ultra and other experiment narratives