| Sailors Sprayed With Nerve Gas in Cold War Test, Pentagon Says |
Author: Robert M. Nelson
Date: 05-25-02 07:13
Source: The New York kTimes
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/politics/24NERV.html
Date published: May 23rd 2002
By THOM SHANKER with WILLIAM J. BROAD
WASHINGTON, May 23 — The Defense Department sprayed live nerve and biological agents on ships and sailors in cold war-era experiments to test the Navy's vulnerability to toxic warfare, the Pentagon revealed today.
The Pentagon documents made public today showed that six tests were carried out in the Pacific Ocean from 1964 to 1968. In the experiments, nerve or chemical agents were sprayed on a variety of ships and their crews to gauge how quickly the poisons could be detected and how rapidly they would disperse, as well as to test the effectiveness of protective gear and decontamination procedures in use at the time.
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