TESTING FOR NUCLEAR SURVIVABILITY

A co-worker just showed this to me.  This lab is 1 mile from me as the crow flies and it creeps me out a little - not this stuff, but other testing they have taken on in their simian lab:

http://www.theheraldbusinessjournal.com/article/20151216/BIZ/151219331/Everett-animal-lab-to-test-drugs-for-nuclear-attack-survivors

As a parting thought; I thought we had completed all the testing on this stuff back in the 1950's and 1960's.....??