Answer: The Human Radiation Experiments Database is Down, Why?

It seems a bit strange that nothing appears to be showing up
about this database in the obvious places, such as Lexis
Academic General News/Major Papers, Proquest Newspapers
(including New York Times Historical), and JStor. I do get
plenty of hits on the search "Human Radiation Experiments"
but nothing relevant if I include Database (even as not part
of the phrase). The National Archives "ARC" catalog -
http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/basic_search.jsp - gets 40
records on the search Human Radiation Experiments, and 38 if
I AND it with database. All of them seem to say they are in
Record Group 220, specifically: President (1993-2001 :
Clinton). Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
They also say "Unrestricted". But these appear to be
documents and databases assembled by that 1990's Committee -
NOT an actual database of the experiments themselves.

The Defense Technical Information Center - www.dtic.mil
simple search gets 30 hits for the search "human radiation
experiments" and database; only 1 for "human radiation
experiments database" (and that is mainly a short list of
abbreviations). But if you click "DTIC Science & Technology"
link, just above that default simple search box, then
click "Advanced Search" and change the "Search For" to "exact
phrase", human radiation experiments database gets zero hits;
but human radiation experiments gets a huge 2 vol report pdf
online:
--DTIC STINET TR Accession: ADA328642 - Department of Defense
Report on Search for Human Radiation Experiment Records,
1944 - 1994, Volume 1.
--DTIC STINET TR Accession: ADA328641 - Department of Defense
Report on Search for Human Radiation Experiment Records,
1944 - 1994, Volume 2.

Vol 2 is only 60 pages, but vol 1 is 588 pages. Much of it
appears to be lists of experiments done in hospitals and
medical centers, but there are sites such as Dugway Proving
Ground, Lackland Air Force Base, etc.

These are certainly no substitute for a searchable database
(I have no luck even doing searches with the Adobe
Acrobat "find in document". I tried several words and names
that I actually saw - such as Dugway, Lackland, and Wiford
for the medical center at Lackland - and the pdf "find"
failed to find them).

The Department of Energy took over all of the old Atomic
Energy Commission library, so their databases at www.osti.gov
are also a logical place to look for this elusive database.
But their "Information Bridge" advanced search at http://www.osti.gov/bridge/advancedsearch.jsp gets zero hits
for: "human radiation experiments database". It does get 34
hits for "human radiation experiments" and database, and
there seems to be material here that is not in DTIC or the
National Archives "ARC" catalog. For example, just one of the
supplements, "DOE/EH--96001976 Advisory Committee on human
radiation experiments. Supplemental Volume 2a, Sources and
documentation appendices. Final report"(88 Mb), is 911 pages.

The National Security Archive at George Washington University
has a page "Nuclear History at the National Security
Archive": http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/NC/nuchis.html
But the database it mentions seems to be that same collection
of documents from the Advisory Committee (during Clinton's
term):

"U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Database - This database includes document catalogs,
bibliographies and other materials that the Advisory
Committee collected when it was preparing its reports to the
public. All documents that the Committee collected are
available at the National Archives as is an ascii version of
the database. The Archive's version of the database retains
the original Lotus Notes format developed by the Advisory
Committee staff. The database is available for use at the
Archive's reading room, by appointment."

This may be going over ground you have already covered, but
please let me know how it works out.

Thanks