Originally Posted by Excargodog

Once upon a time in a career far away I visited the Dugway Proving Grounds where the US once tested offensive biowarfare weapons and subsequently did defensive testing with (supposedly). non-pathogenic tracer species of organisms.

I say “supposedly” because some of the 1950s testing was with non-pathogenic organisms that, to paraphrase a recent President’s comment about shovel-ready jobs, ‘weren’t quite as non pathogenic as we thought they were.’

There is a reason Dugway Proving Grounds is sort of at the end of nowhere and in one of the least densely populated areas in the US and NOT in the middle of the largest and most populous city in the center of the country.

You don’t actually need to ascribe malice if simple incompetence will do.