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.
VA: Chemical and Biological Warfare Testing.
The Department of Defense (DoD) conducted chemical and biological warfare testing in
support of Project 112 and Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD). This testing
used:
• Biological and chemical warfare agents
• Simulants
• Tracers
• Decontaminates
Historical Background of the U.S. Biologic-Warfare Program.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233494/
Organisms and materials that were considered by the scientific community to be "safe" were selected (U.S. Army 1977). A total of 160 tests using various simulants were conducted at 66 locations (both military and civilian targets) in the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) and Canada.
United States biological weapons program.
The United States biological weapons program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Research continued following World War II as the U.S. built up a large stockpile of biological agents and weapons. Over the course of its 27-year history, the program weaponized and stockpiled the following seven bio-agents (and pursued basic research on many more):
CBS NEWS: US Admits BioWeapons Tests
The United States secretly tested chemical and biological weapons on American soil during the 1960s, newly declassified Pentagon reports show.
The tests included releasing deadly nerve agents in Alaska and spraying bacteria over Hawaii, according to the documents obtained Tuesday.
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