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Search results for "mustard gas" ...
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"Study Finds Diseases in 1918 Test Area"
A year long health survey of residents in a 345-house area of Spring Valley showed shocking results. These houses were built over a series of trenches, bunkers, and laboratory debris fields that were part of a W W 1 chemical warfare test area. Investigation shows that 131 people were afflicted with 56 separate diseases, which can be linked to arsenic, mustard gas, and Lewisite.
Tags: World War 1: W W 1; health; housing; chemical; warfare; diseases; arsenic; mustard gas; Lewisite; contamination
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Duty, Honor, Betrayal: How the U.S. turned its back on poisoned WWII vets
Zeman did months and months of research to tell the stories of U.S. army veterans who were exposed to poison gases as part of government experiments before and during World War II. In the early nineties, these stories came to light and the VA promised to help the affected veterans file claims and fight for compensation, but the agency never came through. This report found that the VA never fulfilled its pledge, and that many sick and dying veterans, affected by chemical experiments decades before, were left to handle their illnesses completely on their own.
Tags: military; mustard gas; Nuremburg; Anthony Principi; Pentagon; lewisite; gas chambers; Edgewood Arsenal; Department of Defense; Veterans Affairs
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Mask Confusion
Indiana began buying equipment after 911 that would protect police, firefighters, and medics from a weapon of mass destruction. In a statewide investigation, WISH-TV showed that the state purchased gas masks that put first responders in danger. They proved the state broke both state and federal laws by even making the decision on what masks to buy. First responders admitted they did not want to wear the masks because they would not protect them. Some of the comments include: "I want the better mask", "We're going to get first responders hurt or killed." The investigation prompted the state to reconsider the multi-million dollar purchase and return the gas masks.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; police; firefighters; paramedics; weapon of mass destruction; gas masks; OSHA; U.S. Department of Justice; emergency rescue; mustard gas; silicone mask; butyl mask; Biological weapons; chemical weapons; nuclear weapons; U.S. Army's Dugway; Tipecanoe County; Marion County; respiratory hazard
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Chemical Weapons Buried In the Backyard
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports on the burial and sea-dumping of large quantities of chemical weapons by the U.S. Army since World War I. These weapons are not only immediately dangerous if uncovered, they also pose serious environmental and health risks. Expensive clean up programs are underway across the country.
Tags: chemical weapons; mustard gas; Spring Valley; Environmental Protection Agency; War Department; American University; Army Toxis and Hazardous Materials Agency; Chemical and Biological Defense Command; Non-stockpile Chemical Materiel Program
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Mustard Gas Mystery
Sirens on the chemical detection units began a chorus of mournful wails "whoop-whoop-whoop." With clumsy measured strides inside rubber protective suits, three Czechoslovak chemical warfare experts approached a dark stain in the sand of the Saudi desert. The Czechs called the substance Yperite, commonly known as mustard gas, which causes blindness, skin blisters, inflammation of the nose and throat and eventually a painful choking death. Is the United States responsible for the spill?
Tags: Chemical weapons; Iraq; mustard gas
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Mustard Gas Series
During W.W.II Canadian servicemen were used as human guinea pigs for mustard gas experiments at Camp Suffield in Alberta, Canada. They were exposed to poisonous gases in gas chambers and field tests. Many suffered severe blisters, asthma, skin conditions and cancers. This series reports on veterans memories of the experiments and their subsequent suffering.
Tags: Jones Stephenson The secret war chemicals 30 pgs. AUDIO TAPE
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No title (id: 9531)
Discover Magazine reports on the U.S. Army's plans to incinerate millions of aging weapons filled with lethal nerve and mustard gas 30 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah; looks at the potential dangers involved in burning the chemicals, November 1993. # Grossman Shulman
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No title (id: 8412)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports on previously undisclosed secret mustard-gas experiments performed on U.S., Australian and American soldiers during World War II, and that the Allies were on the brink of using chemical warfare on Japanese soldiers in the Pacific, December 1991.
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No title (id: 8198)
News Tribune (Woodbridge, N.J.) Tribune finds buried munitions and chemical waste at a former munitions depot; finds the improper disposal of mustard gas, May - December 1991.
Tags: IRE Award
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No title (id: 7692)
Regardie's magazine investigates a Baltimore company that supplied Iraq with a key chemical that enabled Saddam Hussein to produce chemical weapons, November 1990.
Tags: mustard gas