Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns

[maher_tyler]

After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War, she wonders if her own government is to blame.

In the mid-1950s, and again a decade later, the Army used motorized blowers atop a low-income housing high-rise, at schools and from the backs of station wagons to send a potentially dangerous compound into the already-hazy air in predominantly black areas of St. Louis.

Local officials were told at the time that the government was testing a smoke screen that could shield St. Louis from aerial observation in case the Russians attacked.

But in 1994, the government said the tests were part of a biological weapons program and St. Louis was chosen because it bore some resemblance to Russian cities that the U.S. might attack. The material being sprayed was zinc cadmium sulfide, a fine fluorescent powder.


http://news.yahoo.com/secret-cold-wa...214608828.html

[nyuk nyuk]

It's long been out that they intermittently dropped germs over different cities - including Denver. I think it's unfortunate that the media only seem to mention such things when it involves racial minorities. Whites living around Rocky Flats were nuked for decades. To this day cancers in that area are higher than elsewhere. I guess that doesn't sell copy though.

[Requiem]

Prove it.

[maher_tyler]

Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk

It's long been out that they intermittently dropped germs over different cities - including Denver. I think it's unfortunate that the media only seem to mention such things when it involves racial minorities. Whites living around Rocky Flats were nuked for decades. To this day cancers in that area are higher than elsewhere. I guess that doesn't sell copy though.

Some people think the govt would never do such a thing to its own people...i can imagine all the stuff that goes on that we have no clue about.