GI Guinea Pigs: How the Pentagon Exposed Our Troops to Dangers More Deadly Than War : Agent Orange and Atomic Radiation (Hardcover)

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• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Playboy Press; 1st edition (1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872235696
• ISBN-13: 978-0872235694
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,216,655 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars can you really trust your own US Government?, August 4, 2007

By	DRYWASHER-BILL (LAS VEGAS, NEVADA) - See all my reviews

Here we are in 2007, trying to manage the world affairs by telling everyone how responsible the US Government is in protecting the world from nukes, chemicals, and mass terrorist activity worldwide, yet for all intent, our own cause has been 100 times far more reckless.

These authors have gathered up the news, reports, research, and propaganda, where our own Government, using our own money, placed its own population, and that of other sovereign nations, as well as military personnel, and unsuspecting, trusting citizens IN HARM'S WAY!!!!

A very interesting narrative, with pictures. Shows above ground nuke blasts with military personnel only a few hundreds of feet away from the blast in foxholes; many of which felt the full force of the shockwave and heat flash, then had to get up and march into the maelstrom. Not once, but in at least 20 similar exercises; many of which for no actual testing purposes, but rather like some other sort of needless, expensive 'fireworks' show for the press, and public. thousands fried, and no subsequent medical care for the symptoms developed. Radioactive dirt clouds over Eastern NV and Western UT, and a few over Las Vegas itself. And the cleanup crews sent in on the battleships of Bikini Islands.

Or the indiscriminate use of defoliants in Viet Nam, that destroyed old forests and farm lands. Big money was made by DOW and Monsanto, among others; the key ingredient being dioxin, the most toxic synthetic chemical ever produced. though the Spraying began in the late 1950s and early 1960's, and DOW claimed the product was safe and inert on humans, the original German plant that made the chemical, also determined that dioxin was the active component, and that in 1954. It was a short step to between its steps and that of other makers, yet lives stand no chance when the US Government gets involved, and some outfit have a chance to the deep pockets of US Defense.

This very well written book stopped in 1979 or 1980, but we all have witnessed even more of like irresponsible behavior of our own mediators, governors and legislators. Drugs, experiments, goals, etc., .... if the US G is around, everyone else is going to lose out.