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... that the Spanish–American War-era Fort Terry on Plum Island (pictured) was used as a U.S. biological weapons research facility from 1952 to 1969?
...that Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896, & later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation?
... that from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah, oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents?

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