Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns

[Barefootsies]

Not surprising. Tax dollars hard at work.

ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.
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.

Now, new research is raising greater concern about the implications of those tests. St. Louis Community College-Meramec sociology professor Lisa Martino-Taylor's research has raised the possibility that the Army performed radiation testing by mixing radioactive particles with the zinc cadmium sulfide, though she concedes there is no direct proof.

"I feel betrayed," said Brindell, who is white. "How could they do this? We pointed our fingers during the Holocaust, and we do something like this?"

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[crockett]

Pretty sure if they mixed "radioactive particles" in with what ever they were blowing out, that it would be easy enough to detect.

Not like radioactive stuff goes away anytime soon.

[JFK]

The Government is here to protect you

[Failed]

We know of this test, the plan similar to 9/11, agent orange on our own troops, etc., etc. Can you imagine the tests ongoing at this moment?

[ajrocks]

The US government is evil. This has been done again and again, not normally to US residents, normally they do it in the 3rd world or on your Army personnel

[sperbonzo]

Here ya go. Let me fix this for ya....

Originally Posted by ajrocks

Most governments are evil. This has been done again and again, not only to their own residents, but they also do it elsewhere in the world or on their own Army personnel

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