WWII Vets Never Compensated After Race-Based Mustard Gas Experiments

Published June 24, 2015 at 12:52 PM EDT

Three test subjects enter a gas chamber, which will fill with mustard gas, as part of the military's secret chemical warfare testing in March 1945. (Courtesy of Edgewood Arsenal)

This week, NPR uncovered race-based mustard gas experiments on American troops during World War II, and that the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to compensate veterans permanently injured by the tests.

NPR’s Caitlin Dickerson spent the last eight months reporting for this investigation and joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to talk about the veterans she interviewed and how Congress is responding to their stories.

Guest

Caitlin Dickerson, reporter with NPR’s Investigations Team. She tweets @itscaitlinhd.

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