Why is the cancer rate on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques higher than that in the surrounding Caribbean? And where did the bands of toxic mercury in the soils of Slovenia come from? An answer to both is warfare. Massive amounts of noxious munitions have been dumped off Vieques during training exercises by the US navy, and are linked to illnesses. And the mercury is a chemical legacy of artillery barrages along the Soca Front during the First World War.
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