Links "America has a sad legacy of weapons testing in the Pacific...people were removed from their homes and their islands used as targets." While this statement during congressional testimony during the Department of Defense's inquiry into Project 112 was referring a completely different and separate testing program, there are common concerns about... ...potential adverse health impacts and the timely release of information.[27] Congress was unsatisfied with the DOD's unwillingness to disclose information relating to the scope of America's chemical and biological warfare past and provide the information necessary to assess and deal with the... ...risks to public safety and U.S. service members' health that CBW testing may have posed or continue to pose.[27] 2004 A Government Accounting Office May 2004 report, Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs to Continue to Collect and Provide Information on Tests and Potentially Exposed Personnel states: 1962-1974 During the 1962-74 time period, the Department of Defense (DOD) conducted a classified chemical and biological warfare test program, called Project 112, that might have exposed U.S. service members... ...and others including DOD civilian personnel, DOD contractors, and foreign nationals to chemical or biological agents employed in these tests... ...While there is no database that contains information concerning the biological and chemical tests that have been conducted, we determined that hundreds of such classified tests and research projects were conducted outside Project 112 while it was ongoin