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In 1950, the United States government launched a secret biological attack on its own citizens—and for 20 years, they didn’t tell a soul.
It was a crisp September morning in San Francisco when a US Navy ship began spraying a massive, invisible cloud of bacteria into the fog just outside the Golden Gate Bridge.
This wasn’t a foreign enemy; it was the US military. Over the course of six days, they released Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii—two pathogens chosen specifically because they were thought to be “harmless.” The goal was to track how a biological weapon would spread through a major American city.
The experiment was a terrifying success. The bacteria swept through the city’s microclimates, infiltrating every neighborhood, school, and hospital.
By the end of the week, nearly all of San Francisco’s 800,000 residents had inhaled millions of bacterial spores. The military monitored the spread using 43 sampling stations, proving that a single release could effectively infect an entire metropolitan area.
But there was a problem with the “harmless” theory. Within days of the spraying, a local hospital saw an unprecedented outbreak of rare urinary tract infections.
Eleven people were hospitalized with serious complications. One man, Edward Nevin, a retired pipefitter recovering from surgery, died three weeks later after the bacteria reached his heart.
The military kept the data classified, and the public remained completely unaware that they had been used as lab rats in a simulated doomsday scenario.
It wasn’t until 1976, during a Senate subcommittee hearing, that the truth of “Operation Sea-Spray” finally emerged, forever shattering the illusion of domestic safety during the Cold War.
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I never heard of this one BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), I’m not surprised. Are you?
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