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That Time The U.S. Government Secretly Sprayed Its Own Citizens With Germs.
This week, I learned that during the early Cold War, the U.S. government secretly tested how biological agents would spread by using American cities and transit systems as live test environments. My Brief: Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco would be to a
Weekly Tom
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