Keen as Mustard: Britain's Horrific Chemical Warfare Experiments in AustraliaA challenge of the what good is it going to do anyway variety by an elderly, sick mustard gas volunteer led reporter Bridget Goodwin to investigate the history of human experimentation and chemical weapons and current efforts to ban such weapons. On the eve of the Gulf War, her Keen as Mustard doc |
Contents
Human experimentation and chemical weapons | 51 |
Mango Avenue mustard gas and the Major | 81 |
Useless defences | 108 |
The Brook Island trials | 127 |
Volunteers | 150 |
Moira and the girls | 185 |
Post1943 understanding of chemical agents and | 220 |
Conclusion | 245 |
Casualty assessment of volunteers | 286 |
The assault course | 288 |
Gorrills Brook Island instructions | 291 |
Main chemical warfare agents | 292 |
Volunteers poem The Guinea Pigs | 294 |
Summary of health problems reported by US veterans | 297 |
Bibliography | 300 |
Endnotes | 312 |
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