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Project Cadmus was a secret division of the United States government dedicated to countering the power of metahumans in the world, particularly the members of the Justice League.

Cadmus's precise origins are unclear. According to General Hardcastle, the U.S. military and several major corporations had been collaborating for decades, experimenting on metahumans, extraterrestrials, and mutants, and hoarding advanced technology (human and alien), for both profit and defense. Their early efforts included Volcana, and the teenagers whom The Joker remade into the Royal Flush Gang. It has also been hinted that the "Big Bang" which occurred in the City of Dakota, which exponentially increased the metahuman population, was sanctioned, and possibly orchestrated, by the government and Edwin Alva.