This comprehensive CD-ROM provides a complete guide to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Deployment Health Support Directorate; Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense) U.S. Warship Chemical and Biological Warfare Agent Tests; Project 112 Cold War-era Chemical and Biological Warfare Tests; Depleted Uranium; Birth Defects; and Deployment Quarterly Magazine.
Project SHAD, conducted during the 1960s, encompassed tests designed to identify warships’ vulnerabilities to attacks with chemical or biological agents and to develop procedures to respond to such attacks while maintaining a war-fighting capability. Since September 2000, the DoD has been actively pursuing declassification of relevant medical information from all 109 planned chemical and biological tests in Project 112. Project SHAD coverage includes: Test Listing; Test Details; Released Information; Investigation Progress; News Releases; SHAD Chart; Associated Ships; Glossary; SHAD Chart Archive. Depleted Uranium coverage includes: Lessons Learned About Depleted Uranium Training; Army Training Policies/Procedures Concerning DU; Other DU Training Publications & Links; Deployment Health Support Directorate Depleted Uranium Information Library; DU in the Gulf War and the Balkans; DU Health Concerns. Deployment Health Medical FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) include: Birth Defects; Blood Donations; CCEP; Fibromyalgia; Leukemia & Other Cancers; Medical Records; Pyridostigmine Bromide; Squalene; Vaccinations & Immunizations
In all, the disc has over 22,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable.
Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool.
