New York Post - October 9, 2002
U.S. REVEALS '60S BIO, CHEM TESTS
The United States staged open-air biological- and chemical- weapons tests in Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland and Florida during the 1960s in an effort to develop defenses against such weapons, according to Pentagon documents obtained yesterday.
The tests, conducted from 1965 to '67, used artillery shells and bombs filled with the nerve agents sarin and VX, the records show.
The Defense Department plans to release summaries of 28 chemical-and biological-weapons tests at a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing today. The Associated Press obtained the summaries yesterday.
The documents did not say whether any civilians had been exposed to the poisons. Military personnel would have worn protective gear, the Pentagon says.
The tests were directed from the Deseret Test Center, part of a biological and chemical weapons complex in the Utah desert.