Here my notes on the military's testing of biological warfare strategy over American cities:
"The Army has acknowledged that between 1949 and 1969, 239 populated areas from coast to coast were blanketed with various organisms during tests designed to measure patterns of dissemination in the air, weather effects, dosages, optimum placement of the source, and other factors. Testing over such areas was supposedly suspended after 1969, but there is no way to be certain of this."
Here's a rundown of some of the known tests:
1950: Watertown, NY area and Virgin Islands - Army used aircraft and homing pigeons to drop turkey feathers dusted with cereal rust spores to contaminate oat crops, to prove that a cereal rust epidemic could be spread as a biological warfare weapon.
September 20-27, 1950: San Francisco Bay area - Six experimental biological warfare attacks by the US Army from a ship, using Bacillus globigii and Serratia marcescens, at one point formed a cloud about two miles long as the ship traveled along the shoreline of the bay. Studied "the offensive possibilities of attacking a seaport city with a biological weapon aerosol." 11 patients reported to Stanford Hospital with Serratia marcescens infections (never before reported at the hospital), and one died. Other tests were done in the SF Bay from 1954 to 1967.
1953: Minneapolis - 61 releases of zinc cadmium sulfide in four sections of the city, leading to massive exposure. The EPA lists the cadium content as "potentially hazardous" and a former Army scientist has stated that it is "highly toxic and a human health hazard." Can cause liver damage, lung damage, and kidney inflammation.
1953: St. Louis - 35 releases of zinc cadmium sulfide.
1953: D.C. area - Arial spraying of zinc cadmium sulfide with lycopodium spores over the Monocacy River Valley and Leesburg.
1955: Tampa Bay - Open-air test of whooping cough bacteria. Tampa Bay showed a sharp increase in whooping cough cases in 1955.
Feb 11-15, 1956: New York City - A joint CIA/Army team sprayed some substance around NY streets and tunnels to test trick suitcases and mufflers.
1956-58: Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida - Hundreds of thousands of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the type that carry yellow fever and dengue, were released to determine the practicality of mosquitoes carrying a biowarfare agent. Army said the mosquitoes were uninfected but it was impossible to know 100%.
1960s: National Airport in D.C. - U.S. Army disseminated the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through the airport as well as a Greyhound bus terminal to see how easy it would be for an enemy agent to infect a population. Bacillus subtilis is potentially harmful to the infirm and elderly. They even did a test "assassination" of Richard Nixon with the spores in the White House a.c. system.
1964-1965: Texas, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska - Army conducted aerosol tests of "anti-animal non-biological stimulants" over stockyards in all these states.
June 6-10, 1966: New York City - Army released trillions of Bacillus subtillis spores into the subway system during rush hour, infecting an unknown number of people.
1960s: Chicago - A similar experiment was repeated in the Chicago subway.
1969: Cambridge, Maryland - 115 open air tests of zinc cadmium sulfate.
That's just the biological/chemical shyt - there's been a lot of radioactive exposure from various tests as well.
