What happened to the experimental unit?
That unit was the reason for the girls murder but we were left in the dark about its future.
shareIn the movie, Nick Nolte disbanded the group. Right after the Chazz Palminteri character's funeral.
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I think the orignal poster was referring to the group of sickly soldiers, and not Nolte's semi-rogue, four man police squad. The girl, played by Connelly, was ultimately killed because she learned, through her association with Gen. Timms, of the exisistence of a group of soliders who were experimented on ny the army, in terms of seeing how various levels of exposure to radiation and such affected people in general.
As far as what happened to the sickly soldiers (i.e. the experimental group), I'm sure they all died off pretty quickly, given their obviously advanced states of sickness, and their corpses disposed of as to hide the true nature of their deaths.
Does anyone know if the US Army or any other US organization in reality has actually experimented on living persons like this?
I mean deliberately exposing them to radiation knowing they would fall ill?
I have always assumed the scientists were unaware of the risks of radiation at that time.
You should check out Nightbreaker. A HBO tv movie. With Martin Sheen.
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No i mean in real life, not in Hollywood movie-life.
Inputting well-chosen key words into google or yahoo might reveal the information you are seeking. Certainly US prisons have done this.
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You would think that the US Armed Services could avoid experimenting on its own soldiers by reviewing medical charts of patients in Japanese hospitals treating the victims of the two atomic bombs. They should have been able to extrapolate the data into a simulation study. Perhaps the Army was testing equipment designed to protect the soldiers.
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As I recall, in the film it was explained that it was a unit for cancer patients. I thought b---s---, these were people suffering from radiation.
shareExposure to radiation causes cancer.
I thought they were the soldiers working on the bomb program who happened to get lethal exposure to radioactive material. I mean, Timms was also dying of exposure -- was he part of an "experiment"? Nope, just exposed during the course of his normal work.
Think of it this way: you're gung ho Treat Williams and accidental illnesses could torpedo the nuclear energy program. You want to hush them up. Jennifer Connelly wants to expose the truth. Remember, this was in the era of "duck and cover." Result -- one dead woman.
Thousands of soldiers were exposed to radiactivity from blasts when they were doing initial above ground testing. They were training soldiers to go in as ground troops after the blast. This is widely documented and easy to find with some diligent searching.
In reality, it was far worse than what was depicted in the film. Many more people were affected than simply a small handful of people.
Remember the scene in the begiining B&W footage that shows the troops advancing under the shadow of a mushroom cloud? That is what the US army did for their first several blasts until they learned it was not feasible.