Chemical Warfare in Australia
Author | : Geoff Plunkett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 733 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Chemical agents (Munitions) |
ISBN | : 9781876439880 |
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Author | : Geoff Plunkett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 733 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Chemical agents (Munitions) |
ISBN | : 9781876439880 |
Author | : Geoff Plunkett |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780987427922 |
Author | : Geoff Plunkett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780987427908 |
As the Japanese swept south towards Australia in late 1941, they carried chemical weapons, already used with deadly effect in China. Forced to counter the chemical warfare threat, Australia covertly imported 1 million chemical weapons and hid them. Plunkett tells the story of the importation, storage, and live trials of the deadly weapons.
Author | : Bridget Goodwin |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780702229411 |
A 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
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Publisher | : Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Richard G. Gillis |
Publisher | : Australian National University |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous |
ISBN | : 9780731513222 |
Covers the public record of Australia's activities in chemical warfare field trials during World War II.
Author | : Geoff Plunkett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Chemical agents (Munitions) |
ISBN | : |
Although the disposal of material in the sea is no very restricted, historically, the disposal of unwanted waste in the ocean has been a very common practice in many parts of the world. Due to its immense size the ocean was thought to have an unlimited absorptive capacity, with any dumped waste having only a very localised effect. Moreover, the material would be well away from any human activity. It is important to know where any hazardous material may lie, both to prevent human contact and to assess the possible ecological consequences.
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Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Newspaper cuttings from the Australian press clippings collection on chemical warfare. Many of the articles are on Australia's call to ban the use of chemical weapons following the Vietnam War.
Author | : Geoff Plunkett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780987427915 |
In 1943 a top secret consignment of chemical weapons, including deadly mustard gas, arrived in Australia by ship. But there was a problem - it was leaking. Military authorities quickly realised this but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected and unsuspecting wharf labourers into a lethal environment. The result was catastrophic: permanent disability and death. This shocking narrative includes accounts of official deceit, intimidation of gassed labourers and denial of natural justice. The truth, buried in classified documents and the testimony of the few survivors, is that human life was sacrificed for the sake of secrecy. Almost 70 years after war stocks of chemical weapons were apparently totally destroyed, mustard gas is still present on the Australian mainland, in her oceans and along her coastal fringes. The total destruction of chemical stocks is simply another military assumption. The truth is that these deadly weapons were incompletely destroyed, buried or simply lost. Many retain their effectiveness despite the passing of time, a fact that cost one man his life and saw staff and children at a school badly burned in 1964. Mustard gas weapons have been retrieved as recently as 2012 and more may lie in shallow graves waiting to be uncovered. This is a very real lesson for the military of today. This book is a volume in the Australian Army History Collection, published by the Army History Unit (Department of Defence, Australia). It featured on the 7pm ABC news on 28 November 2014.
Author | : Geoff Plunkett |
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Genre | : Chemical agents (Munitions) |
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