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.
By:
Chris Arsenault Imprint: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Country of Publication: Canada Dimensions:
Height: 18mm,
Width: 13mm,
Spine: 2mm
Weight: 142g ISBN:9781552662960 ISBN 10: 1552662969 Pages: 112 Publication Date:01 September 2009 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
"Chris Arsenault is a journalist who has been featured in ""Briarpatch,"" ""Canadian Dimension,"" ""The Halifax Chronicle Herald,"" ""The Saint John Telegraph Journal,"" and ""THIS Magazine."" He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia."