LECTURE - UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPONS: AGENT ORANGE AND GULF WAR SYNDROME (PART 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: LECTURE - UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPONS: AGENT ORANGE AND GULF WAR SYNDROME (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFF 1
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  • Summary: Lecture by Lieutenant-Colonel M J World FRCP, RAMC (Professor of Military Medicine at the Royal Defence Medical College) to an audience of regimental medical officers, plus RN and RAF doctors, gathered at the Defence Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Centre, Winterbourne Gunner (Wiltshire). Lieutenant-Colonel World considers the difficulties of evaluating Gulf War Syndrome by referring to US studies on the supposed human after-effects of the use of Agent Orange chemical defoliant during the Vietnam War.
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  • Colour: Colour
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  • Object_Number: BFF 1
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (BFF 1-2)
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  • Production Date: 1997-08
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Defence (Production sponsor) Defence Nuclear Biological Chemical Centre Video Unit, Winterbourne Gunner (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: World, M J (person) Defence Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Centre, Winterbourne Gunner (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Defence Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Centre, Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire, England, UK (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: S-VHS Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Running time: 84 mins (total, with Part 2)
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFF 1

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFF 2 (LECTURE - UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPONS: AGENT ORANGE AND GULF WAR SYNDROME (PART 2) [Allocated Title])
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