Carrying out weapons and biological tests in the United States is not anything new and dating back to at least the 1930s. During the Cold War, thousands of American citizens became victims to “radiation” experiments at the Atomic Energy. Center and other government facilities, and even after the signing of the International Convention on the Prohibition of Laboratories and the. Production of Weapons and Biological Factors in 1972, the US government continued to do so and after September 11, 2001, it became a sudden and questionable big leap.