Some mates eh ?

[Shannow]

IT'S been revealed that the US military planned to test deadly nerve gas on Australian soldiers in far north Queensland during the Cold War.
Newly declassified Defence and Prime Minister's office files show that the US was strongly pushing then prime minister Harold Holt's government in the 1960s to allow tests of two of the deadliest chemical weapons ever developed -- VX and GB, better known as Sarin nerve gas.

The revelation will air this morning on the Nine Network's Sunday program.

It says the top secret plan involved allowing 200 mainly Australian combat troops to be aerially bombed and sprayed with the chemical weapons.

It's understood the Iron Range rainforest near Lockhart River in far north Queensland was the likely location for the tests.

Peter Bailey, a former senior official with Mr Holt, tells the program the request caused consternation in Canberra, and as far as he knows the tests never went ahead.

But he says planning was very advanced in the US, which wanted the operation to be kept secret because the weapons were illegal under international law.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23976732-5005961,00.html

 

[Southy]

Ahhh yes the Yanks, so full of conspiracy theories on everyone else.....

 

[Goreripper]

We're getting pretty chummy with the Chinese these days. Who knows what they're capable of?

 

[dreamwatch]

Holy shit sauce! That's low even for the septics.

 

[Goreripper]

The Brits dropped atomic bombs on us in the 50s, just to see what they would do, so we shouldn't be that surprised.

 

[Shadow298]

The Brits dropped atomic bombs on us in the 50s, just to see what they would do, so we shouldn't be that surprised.

was about to mention that.

not to mention all the Agent Orange in Vietnam too dropped by the Yanks.

 

[Goreripper]

They dropped that up on the Sunshine Coast too, just to see if it would work. This is what happens when you start life as a prison colony.

 

[dreamwatch]

The Brits dropped atomic bombs on us in the 50s, just to see what they would do, so we shouldn't be that surprised.

Yeah, but that was just out of curiosity. We didn't actually want to hurt anybody.

 

[mattt]

They dropped that up on the Sunshine Coast too, just to see if it would work. This is what happens when you start life as a prison colony.

and Innisfail.