In the latest issue of The New Yorker, journalist Raffi Khatchadourian writes about a secret chemical weapons testing program run by the U.S. Army during the Cold War.
Khatchadourian’s article, “Operation Delirium,” profiles Jim Ketchum, one of the military doctors who helped lead the project. To this day, Ketchum maintains that the tests were conducted in the interest of a greater good.
Khatchadourian calls him “an unreconstructed advocate of chemical warfare,” and says that he “went about his work in the belief that chemicals are more humane instruments of warfare than bullets and shrapnel.”
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