They tested the nuke on military personnel? By Robert Gehrke, !@#$%^&*ociated Press, 6/30/2003 19:46 WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon used potentially dangerous chemical and biological agents in 50 secret tests involving military personnel in a decadelong project to measure the weapons' combat capabilities, according to a Pentagon findings released Monday. The tests were done between 1962 and 1973 and involved 5,842 service members. Many were not told of the tests, some of which involved releases of deadly nerve agents in Alaska and Hawaii. The information released Monday disclosed eight new tests that primarily used nonlethal bacteria and in some cases caustic chemicals. And it revealed for the first time experiments to find ways to use submarines to distribute biological weapons.