Hunt for US weapons dump off NZ coast

November 2nd, 2005 at 16:11 Björn Hallberg

But I guess this is going to get explained by the old “you owe us your gratitude” dogma.

Nzherald - New Zealand Government researchers have combed the United States Government national archives for information on chemical weapons dumped off the New Zealand coast.

At the end of World War 2, the US Army secretly dumped millions of kilograms of chemical weapons off New Zealand and a dozen other countries.

The dumpings took place as the US was short of space in home-based munitions depots.

US-made weapons litter 30 sites off New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, the Philippines, Italy, France, India, Pakistan, Japan, Denmark and Norway, a report by the chemical weapon historical research and response team at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, US, said.

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