Chronicling the horrific story of the Agent Orange experiments near Oromocto, New Brunswick, this shocking history reveals the tragic accounts of numerous families who lost loved ones due to military testing. Depicting the initial spraying of the deadly defoliant near Gagetown, this document portrays how the United States military, searching for a terrain similar to Vietnam, began conducting tests in this area. Although the Americans discontinued their trials in the late 1960s, this record uncovers more than an additional decade’s worth of continued use by Canadian forces, who discovered it was cheaper to clear brush and kill trees with a dangerous chemical than to hire workers to perform the task. As this astonishing study demonstrates, what they did not know at the time was that Agent Orange also killed people. Hundreds of locals suffered and died, and cancer and other diseases ran rampant among military personnel and civilians who worked on the base. This stunning recollection investigates the stories of those who didn’t survive as well as their relatives’ daunting struggle to obtain compensation for their suffering and loss, exposing countless years of government complicity.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 363.17/91
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-nk
- ISBN
- 1552662969 9781552664933
- LCCN
- RA1242.T44
- LCCN Item number
- A77 2009eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (115 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00228135 (OCoLC)776812867 (CaOOCEL)440298
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Blow back
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 11
- Bringing the war Home 11
- U.S. interest in this trial is intense especially with the opera- tional personnel both Army and Air Force notes a U.S. military briefing reporting on the 1966 to 1967 tests. However Canadian 18
- Chapter 2 27
- Chapter 3 51
- U.S. Spraying in Canada 51
- As tensions rose in Europe President Franklin D. Roosevelt 55
- Chapter 4 73
- How It All Comes Out 73
- Chapter 5 99
- The Legal Front 99
- Postscript 113
- Timeline of Events 117
- Index 121