Operation LAC: That Time Uncle Sam Sprayed Poison Across St. Louis

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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As the US government became increasingly concerned about the possibility of large-scale biological weapons, they decided something must be done: they needed to test— in secret. In today’s episode, the guys explore how the US Army conspired to spray an entire impoverished part of St. Louis with potentially dangerous chemicals… basically, to see what happened.

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