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Source: Yahoo

7-9-15

'One of the largest human experiments in history' was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco

In 1950 the US military conducted a test to see whether San Francisco's fog could be used to help spread a biological weapon in a "simulated germ-warfare attack."

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'One of the largest human experiments in history' was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco