13-10-2010, 03:24 PM
Canada too is has done the same thing. The Canadian government had a program that recognized Canadian soldiers who were used as test subjects in field trials of chemical warfare agents. The experiments began in 1941 and ended in the 1970s. Test subjects were given a lump sum payment and a small memorial was erected to commemorate what was done to them.
The government created this program after two veterans threatened to sue the government. The men, after participating in the field trials, were told not to speak to anyone about the experiments, and this resulted in many not been able to seek medical treatment for the effects of the treatment, because they could not discuss what had happened to them.
Canada also has an Agent Orange program for exposing military personnel
to this herbicide in Canada in the 1960s and another program for using Canadian soldiers in the atomic bomb tests in Nevada in the 1950s.
John
The government created this program after two veterans threatened to sue the government. The men, after participating in the field trials, were told not to speak to anyone about the experiments, and this resulted in many not been able to seek medical treatment for the effects of the treatment, because they could not discuss what had happened to them.
Canada also has an Agent Orange program for exposing military personnel
to this herbicide in Canada in the 1960s and another program for using Canadian soldiers in the atomic bomb tests in Nevada in the 1950s.
John