coffeeinvenice t1_j9nglt0 wrote
For those of us old enough to remember it, the 1968 Dugway Sheep Incident had a significant impact on public consciousness and pop culture in the late 1960s. It happened at the height of the Vietnam War when there was rising public doubt in the US on what the Pentagon was doing and what it was spending money on.
The Dugway Sheep Incident may have been the basis for The Andromeda Strain, a 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton that made it to the 1969 New York Times Best Seller list. In the novel, a team of scientists at a secret underground government laboratory investigate the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona. Images of dead people in the 1971 movie were/are reminiscent of fields of dead sheep from the Dugway incident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o9Iwtp0xcg
In 1971, Charlton Heston stared in a post-apocalyptic science-fiction film called The Omega Man, later remade into I Am Legend. In the 1971 film, a Sino-Soviet border conflict escalates into full-scale war in which biological warfare destroys most of the human race.
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