I grew up in St. Louis and I found out about chemical testing[0] that went on here awhile ago.
I think the scariest part was that I'm sure it was specifically tested in a low-income area purposely, because the people there could probably do less about it. A relevant bit from the article:
> Spates, now 57 and retired, was born in 1955, delivered inside her family's apartment on the top floor of the since-demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing development in north St. Louis. Her family didn't know that on the roof, the Army was intentionally spewing hundreds of pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide into the air.
> Three months after her birth, her father died. Four of her 11 siblings succumbed to cancer at relatively young ages.
The fact that there probably are still people in the US government making similar decisions makes me a lot more nervous about life.
I think the scariest part was that I'm sure it was specifically tested in a low-income area purposely, because the people there could probably do less about it. A relevant bit from the article:
> Spates, now 57 and retired, was born in 1955, delivered inside her family's apartment on the top floor of the since-demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing development in north St. Louis. Her family didn't know that on the roof, the Army was intentionally spewing hundreds of pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide into the air.
> Three months after her birth, her father died. Four of her 11 siblings succumbed to cancer at relatively young ages.
The fact that there probably are still people in the US government making similar decisions makes me a lot more nervous about life.
[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/army-sprayed-st-louis-with-to...