NEW PACIFIC VOICE

The military targeted Hawaii as a toxic waste dump for poisonous warfare agents from at least as far back as 1925!  The military intentionally dumped thousands of tons of munitions and bulk containers of chemical warfare agents on and around Hawaii.   85 years later the military isn’t exactly sure where all of their poisons and munitions were dumped. 

In the 1960s, the United States military intentionally used Hawaii’s environment as their own private laboratory, and Hawaii’s residents as their lab rats!  Chemical and biological warfare experiments were secretly conducted in Hawaii and on Hawaii residents.   Some of the experiments had codes names such as Autumn Gold, Errand Boy, Flower Drum, Fearless Johnny, Half Note, Big Tom, Folded Arrow, Blue Tango, Yellow Leaf Phase A, Yellow Leaf Phase B, Pine Ridge, Red Oak Phase I, Green Mist, and Tall Timber.  Known chemical, biological, and radiological warfare agents secretly unleashed on Hawaii included:

1) Ester of Benzilic Acid (an incapacitating agent designed to cause stupor, confusion, and hallucinations);

2) Bacillus globigii (associated with acute infections of the ear, brain lining, urinary tract, lungs, heart valve, and the bloodstream);  

3) Aerosolized Zinc Cadmium Sulfide (National Research Council committee focused on as potentially most toxic); 

4) Tiara (no further information is available); 

5) Serratia marcescens (causes acute infections of the urinary tract, lung, bloodstream); 

6) E. coli (causes acute infection, especially when it gains access to the urinary tract, lung, and bloodstream); and 

7) Sarin Nerve Agent (volatile and lethal nerve agent). 

In addition,  Agents Orange, M-3140, TORDON ester, 2, and 4-D ester, 2, 4, and 5-T ester, as well as agents  Blue, White, diquat, paraquat, PCP, Picloram, and Endothall were intentionally unleased into Hawaii’s environment.  According to military documents, the primary reason that these warfare agents were unleashed in Hawaii was to determine the dispersion on these warfare agents!  

The military also unleashed on Hawaii in the 1960’s what may be the longest lasting contaminant the world has ever known, Depleted Uranium!  Radiation contamination from Depleted Uranium has a half-life of 4.5 BILLION years! 

In the 1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission, predecessor of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, licensed the military use of Depleted Uranium (DU) spotting rounds in Hawaii for training with the Davy Crockett weapon system.  The spotting rounds were used  to determine the estimated impact zone of the Davy Crockett weapon system’s 76-pound  nuclear bomb.

Hawaii’s residents were never informed that DU was ever used in Hawaii.  In fact, whenever questioned about their use of DU in Hawaii in the past the military has consistently denied even possessing  DU in Hawaii.

Environmental and native Hawaiian groups obtained information that the Army had infact used DU in Hawaii during the 1960’s.  Mr. Kyle Kajihiro of American Friends Service Committee Hawaii helped to pull the blanket off this sleeping lie by holding a press conference to inform the public of the presence of military DU in Hawaii.  Only hours later the Army came out with their own press conference to “confirm that DU is present in Hawaii.”

Like their secret experiments on Hawaii’s environment and residents, and their massive dumping of explosive munitions, poisonous chemicals, and biological warfare agents from the 1920s through the 1960’s, the military hoped to keep yet another toxic assault on Hawaii secret.   Thanks to to environmental and native Hawaiian organizations that acquired the information, and to Mr. Kajihiro for exposing the truth, we now know that DU was used in Hawaii by the US military, and that it has been contaminating us through the air we breath and the water we drink - for over 40 years!

Army Contradictions:

In April 2008,  former Schofield Barracks, Hawaii garrison commander and current IMCOM Pacific Region Deputy Director, COL Howard J. Killian III says that a shipping list showed that only 714 of the spotting rounds were sent to Hawai’i between 1962 and 1968.   In February 2009 Killian says that although records show 714 spotting rounds used in Davy Crockett weapons systems were shipped to Hawaii in the 1960s, Killian said the types of exercises conducted at PTA would require the firing of at least 2,050 such spotting rounds. 

 The Army originally stated that the Davy Crockett weapon system was used in training in Hawaii up until 1968.  During oral arguments on January 13, 2010 Hawaii petitioner Isaac Harp stated that License SUB-459 (under which the the Atomic Regulatory Agency licensed the Army to use the Davy Crockett DU M101 spotting rounds) had expired on October 31, 1964.  Harp further stated that any use or possession of DU in Hawaii after that date was a violation of law, including the possession of DU presently in Hawaii.  Lt. Col., Kent Herring, Chief of the Environmental Litigation Branch for the Army responded by stating that the Army had stopped using the Davy Crockett weapon system prior to the expiration of the license.

First the Army denies for over 40-years that they ever possessed DU in Hawaii.  Suddenly they’re finding shipping records and dates that their use of DU stopped?  It would take an extremely gullible person to believe anything the Army, in fact all US armed forces say or deny regarding their activities in Hawaii, which to the US Department of Defense is just another outpost for wargames…   

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Epidemiologist, Rosalie Bertell (PhD, biometrics) explains in the video below the deadly effects of DU.  Please check out the rest of the website for more information that everyone should know!