The Real Environmental Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
July 21, 2015
After a World War II bomb was exploded recently on a beach near Tampa, Florida, the media have revealed that at least 30 million pounds of live bombs were dumped in the Gulf of Mexico from 1945 to the early 1970s. There are gigantic “dump sites” of mustard gas off the New Jersey coast; 26 dump sites of various types of bombs of the Northeast coast; 17 dump sites off the Southeast coast; 9 in the west; and 20 near Alaska and Hawaii.
When the state’s wars end, and it is left with millions of pounds of unused bombs, they were just dumped in the water offshore.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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