“The infusion of money, combined with the advances in medicine and science during World War II, spawned an orgy of human experimentation in almost every medical field in the postwar years." -Eileene Welsome, The Plutonium Files Paranoia and threat of war As John Marks writes: 'The apprehensions of the Cold War do not provide a moral or legal shield for such acts, but they do help explain them.'[i] Throughout the 50s and 60s the threat of a Third World War hung as an ever-pres