Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientists goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip testing the core of an A-bomb releases a deadly blast of radiation.

The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.

Musical genius creates a piece of spy technology; Wendell Johnson turns his stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist when he experiments on orphans; Dr. John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.