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  The Secret Test July 6, 2008  Watch our reportReporter: Ross Coulthart Top secret American military plans to test deadly nerve gas by dropping it on soldiers in a remote Queensland rainforest during the Cold War have been uncovered in Australian Government archives. Newly declassified Australian Defence Department and Prime Minister’s office files show that the United States was strongly pushing the Government for tests on Australian soil of two of the most deadly chemical weapons ever developed, VX and GB – Sarin - nerve gas. The plan called for 200 mainly Australian combat troops to be aerially bombed and sprayed with the chemical weapons – with all but a handful of the soldiers to be kept in the dark about the "full details" of the tests. "The idea that we could actually – the Australians could countenance such an activity is …unacceptable," toxicology Professor Chris Winder of the University of NSW says. Even a fraction of a drop of either chemical on exposed chemical could have been fatal, he warned. He said the Cold War fears that communist Chinese or Russian attackers might have used such weapons in a third world war "doesn’t justify it now and I don’t think it justified it then." The Secret Documents:
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