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There is a really interesting article here which suggests that 35 people died as the result of an RAF experiment in the 1950s.
from the article:
On August 15, 1952, one of the worst flash floods ever to have occurred in Britain swept through the Devon village of Lynmouth. Thirty five people died as a torrent of 90m tons of water and thousands of tons of rock poured off saturated Exmoor and into the village destroying homes, bridges, shops and hotels.
The disaster was officially termed "the hand of God" but new evidence from previously classified government files suggests that a team of international scientists working with the RAF was experimenting with artificial rainmaking in southern Britain in the same week and could possibly be implicated.
Aside from the staggering possibility that the flood in Lynmouth could have been caused by this experiment, what are the ethical implications in areas like this?
When does an experiment go 'too far'?
And, unlike experiments at, say,
Porton Down, it is unlikely that the experimenters delibarately set out to cause harm.
Is that any excuse for what happened? |
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