At the University of California, Berkeley, a teacher and bacteriologist, Albert Krueger, oversaw the Naval Biological Laboratory, which had an outpost on the island of Alameda, near Oakland. (Fulfilling the requirement that certain infectious research be carried out offshore.) Beginning in 1943, Krueger’s team worked on experimental aerosol weapons using pestis as their active agent: plague.

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