Chemical warfare (nonfiction)
Chemical warfare.
San Francisco
On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship just off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray a cloud of microbes into the air and into the city's famous fog. The military was testing how a biological weapon attack would affect the 800,000 residents of the city.
- Over and over again, the military has conducted dangerous biowarfare experiments on Americans @ Business Insider - 26 September 2016 - Kevin Loria (nonfiction)
Minneapolis 1953
In a 1953 cold war experiment, the Army sprayed clouds of toxic material over Minneapolis dozens of times and may have caused miscarriages and stillbirths, a public television station here has reported.
The sprayings in Minneapolis and other cities were described then as part of an effort to develop an aerosol screen to protect Americans from fallout in case of an atomic attack, according to the report on Wednesday night by KTCA.
The material sprayed in Minneapolis was zinc cadmium sulfide, a suspected carcinogen, and the Army was actually testing how chemicals would disperse during biological warfare, the station reported.
- Minneapolis Called Toxic Test Site in '53 @ New York Times
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