Well, even in war, our government needs to be accountable. Our government does things that we think only other governments do
Classified U.S. Tests 30 Years Ago Exposed Thousands Of Sailors To Chemical And Biological Weapons
By MARK PAZNIOKAS, And THOMAS D. WILLIAMS Courant Staff Writers <---link
He kept the secret for 30 years. The former Navy skipper told no one about the classified tests of Project Shad, how the Marine jets came screaming out of the night off a remote Pacific atoll, spraying a 100-mile-long aerosol cloud over his five tugboats. Then Jack Alderson's men started getting sick.
In the tests, Marine attack bombers sprayed either simulants or live biological agents. Then the ships sailed through the resulting cloud and collected air samples. In some tests, caged monkeys were placed on deck and later tested to determine whether they had inhaled the material.
Classified U.S. Tests 30 Years Ago Exposed Thousands Of Sailors To Chemical And Biological Weapons
By MARK PAZNIOKAS, And THOMAS D. WILLIAMS Courant Staff Writers <---link
He kept the secret for 30 years. The former Navy skipper told no one about the classified tests of Project Shad, how the Marine jets came screaming out of the night off a remote Pacific atoll, spraying a 100-mile-long aerosol cloud over his five tugboats. Then Jack Alderson's men started getting sick.
In the tests, Marine attack bombers sprayed either simulants or live biological agents. Then the ships sailed through the resulting cloud and collected air samples. In some tests, caged monkeys were placed on deck and later tested to determine whether they had inhaled the material.
