For decades, the U.S. Army conducted human experiments with chemical weapons at Edgewood Arsenal, a military facility located on the Chesapeake Bay. The experiments began before WWII, focussing on mustard gas; after the war, the focus shifted to nerve agents, and, later, to psychochemicals. Many of the experiments were documented on film—some for propaganda purposes, some for research—and we have compiled some of the footage here, in “Manufacturing Madness,” a companion to “Operation Delirium,” my story in The New Yorker this week.  The footage documents soldiers in various states of euphoria, agitation, or physical agony…

Watch the footage, and click-through for more from Raffi Khatchadourian on the Army’s experiments: http://nyr.kr/UcG9YT