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Introduction

WWII – Chemical Warfare Laboratories

Canada’s Long-term Preoccupation with Protective Masks
Other Wartime Chemical Projects
Sidebar: A Few Bumps in the Road
Fluorine Chemistry

Defence Research Board (DRB)

The Shirleys Bay Site
Sidebar: How You Get Paid, When You Work Beyond City Limits
Bureaucratizing Research, and the Demise of the All-Powerful Telephone Call

Chemical Research in the 50s

New Chemical Agents
The Canadian Three-Way Detection Paper
Other Detectors
Flame-thrower Fuels
Battery Electrochemistry

Cold-War Era Nuclear Research

Thermal Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Radiac Instrumentation
Radiation Physics
Radiation Biology
Sidebar: A Primer on DREO’s Names

Protective Science Successes

Biological Programs
Work on Protective Masks Continues
Sidebar: Gas Mask Culture at DREO
Nimbus Cloth
Environmental Protection
Sidebar: The Test Team

Arctic Ice and Remote Sensing

Moira Dunbar (1918-1999)
Sidebar: Changes in the Organization of Canadian Defence Research

Electronics at DREO

The Alouette
Electronics Migrates to DREO

Communications Success Stories

Early Electronics Projects
CANEWS
SARSAT
Sidebar: DREO vs. the Fax Machine
SEASAT
Sidebar: Heading West?

Radar

Further Work in Synthetic Aperture Radar
Spotlight SAR
Repatriating Radar
Sidebar: In Memory of Building 13
CARDS: Good News and Bad News

DREO in the 1990s

From DREnet to Information Operations
Sidebar: Field trials
Sidebar: The 1990s: A Painful Makeover
Sidebar: Entrust
The SMARRT new kid on the DREO block

Epilogue