ABSTRACT
The radiological weapons (RW) program had been developed in concert with the atomic bomb project with consultation by Robert Oppenheimer, Stafford Warren, and General Leslie Groves. Between 1949 and 1952 the Army Chemical Corps rapidly developed the RW program in line with Pentagon demands. By the time open-air Army experiments began in St Louis in 1953, the St Louis Board of Aldermen had not yet granted "African-Americans free access to public eating establishments, hotels, bowling alleys, and theaters". Merican architect Minoru Yamasaki had contracted with the US federal government on large building projects that included the St Louis Airport and the iconic twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Ten years after the Army Chemical Corps and SRI covertly entered St Louis to blanket the city in clouds of military dusts, the US Public Health Service, Army Chemical Corps, and Metronics again arrived in St Louis in May 1963 to scan the city boundaries.
