The Importance of Ethics in the Cold War

Project Sunshine researchers measured the levels of radioactive particles left in cheese, milk, and animal bones as a result of the Nevada nuclear test. The use of rats or other animals would not obtain the same results. This was a case of children who were no longer beneficial to the population being able to provide information that was enormously important for the rest of the world's children. In 1950, the US Navy conducted Operation Sea Spray, a simulated biological attack over the city of San Francisco using the bacteria Serratia-marcesins.