TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Cover  (open link in a new window)
   Back-cover  (open link in a new window)
   Acknowledgements  (open link in a new window)

Military Air Shows

  Military Aircraft: Symbols with Diverse Meanings    (open link in a new window)
  Quiz: Why Should Military Air Shows be Opposed?  (open link in a new window)

Who's Involved in Military Air Shows and Why 

Government: Footing the Bill for Fuel and other Expenses  (open link in a new window)
War Show Organizers: How they Target Children  (open link in a new window)
     How Wars Target Children  (open link in a new window)
Business: Money makes the show go around  (open link in a new window)
Military Planners: Recruitment, PR and PSYOPs  (open link in a new window)
Community Groups: Non-profits that Profit from War  (open link in a new window)
Spectators: The Target Audience  (open link in a new window)
Air Force Pilots: Heroes or Automatons?  (open link in a new window)
     Poems:  "So Long Mom" and "All that is Holy"  (open link in a new window)
Corporate Media: Partners in Promoting War (Shows)  (open link in a new window)
Concerned Citizens: Opposing Military Air Shows   (open link in a new window)

Warplanes and wars


COAT's Database on Air Shows, Warplanes & Weapons  (open link in a new window)
 Whose Military Aircraft have Entertained in Canada?  (open link in a new window)
 Wars, Invasions and other Military Operations  (open link in a new window)

Weapons: Weapons Systems as Sources of Mass Entertainments

Landmines: Killing and Maiming for Years to Come  (open link in a new window)
Biological Weapons: US Germ Warfare in Korea  (open link in a new window)
     Some Canadian Connections to the US Biowarfare Program  (open link in a new window)
BLU-82: Commando Vault, the Biggest Conventional Bomb  (open link in a new window)
Chemical Weapons: Tear Gas and Nerve Gas  (open link in a new window)
     Herbicides: Agents Orange, Blue, Green, White, Pink, Purple  (open link in a new window)
     Different Accounts of Agent Orange  (open link in a new window)
Napalm: Burning People Alive  (open link in a new window)
Antipersonnel Cluster Bombs: Landmines by another name  (open link in a new window)
     Everyday Life with Cluster Bombs in Afghanistan  (open link in a new window)
     If Cluster Bombs Could Talk  (open link in a new window)
     Civilian Victims of Cluster Bombs  (open in a new window)
Air-Launched Cruise Missiles: Smart Bombs  (open link in a new window)
Depleted Uranium: The A-10 Warthog's "Dirty" Bomb  (open link in a new window)
Fuel / Air Explosives: A Terrifying Psychological Weapon  (open link in a new window)
Nuclear Weapons: Preparing for Global Annihilation  (open link in a new window)
     Testing, Accidents, Threats  (open link in a new window)

Canada's Annual Report on Military Exports for 2000  (open in a new window) 

  

Vana update  (open in a new window)
The National Newsletter of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
 The Case for Ending Launch on Warning
Is Intervention Justified?
Poem: Isotopes have very long memories
Short Shots
VANA Convention 2002
To Protect Canadians from Acts of Terrorism