I was researching petri dish air sampling today to test my father's home. I had to read the article twice about the testing in the 1950's with balloons filled with S. marcescens released over San Francisco that caused the urinary tract infections and pneumonia. Outrageous!
Sure is. On one hand we had Kruschev gloating "they would bury us," instructions to hide under our school desks if the big one happened (complete with short movie clip), and on the other hand some Americans became human guinea pigs. The main link was "unavailable," but the cache brought it up.