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The Agent Orange fiasco.(Vietnam War)
Everyone has heard of Agent Orange. How many know that it is basically identical to a commercial weed killer (2,4-D plus 2,4,5-T) that was used for decades in this country to dear brambles, poison ivy, and brush, improve visibility along roads, keep trees from growing into power lines, and promote healthy public forests and rangeland? Thousands of Americans applied this herbicide, and virtually every state and locality used it widely.
The environment in Vietnam posed many challenges to Allied Forces in waging a war against an elusive enemy, concealed in large part by heavy rainforest. Climatic conditions not only promoted rapid vegetative growth but also ...
- Agent Orange: linked to birth defects? (parental dioxin exposure linked to...
- Magazine article from: Science News January 14, 1995 700+ words
...Since then, the saga of Agent Orange and birth defects has...veterans exposed to Agent Orange. Joel E. Michalek...Laboratory at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio and his...paternal exposure to Agent Orange increased the risk of...
- AGENT ORANGE STUDY FACES VA SKEPTICS BUONO RETREATS FROM PREDICTION.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) December 23, 1988 700+ words
...A veteran exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam may now have...in areas sprayed with Agent Orange and who suffer from...Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas. In a 1984...veterans who sprayed Agent Orange, Wolfe said, no conclusive...
- EDITORIAL: Agent Orange data must be preserved.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX) June 15, 2007 700+ words
...The site of the former Brooks Air Force Base contains 86,000 specimens and...Force veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange. The government's 25-year Agent...Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. These samples...
- The History, Use, Disposition and Environmental Fate of Agent Orange.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Vietnam Duckworth, Richard October 1, 2009 700+ words
...Environmental Fate of Agent Orange, by Colonel Alvin L...civilians of exposure to Agent Orange spray. For under Operation...the area at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida (test area...TCDD contaminant in Agent Orange that was disseminated...
- Agent Orange's forgotten victims. (toxic waste dump at Jacksonville, Arkansas)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Casten, Liane Clorfene November 4, 1991 700+ words
...challenge to stop the Agent Orange incineration; another...family. In addition to Agent Orange, more than 100 tanks...documents reviewed by the Agent Orange Scientific Task Force...nearby Little Rock Air Force Base, had a mastectomy...
- AGENT ORANGE HAUNTS VIETNAM.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) May 15, 2001 700+ words
...spraying the defoliant Agent Orange, a new study by American...a major U.S. air force base and important chemical...source of contamination. Agent Orange exposure has been associated...Environmental Medicine. Agent Orange has long been a knotty...
- GSA designates portion of Arizona Air base for homeless use. (General Services...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 20, 1989 700+ words
...announced today that a portion of the Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. is being made available for use as transitional...Tucson Community Block Grant Program, the Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Assistance Act, Private Funding for Housing sponsored by...
- CANADA: AGENT ORANGE SETTLEMENT COVERS LIMITED TIME FRAME.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service September 20, 2007 700+ words
...their exposure to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange, but veterans' advocates say the reparations...by the U.S. in the Vietnam War, Agent Orange was tested and sprayed extensively in...spent summers hacking foliage soaked in Agent Orange while clearing forests at the Canadian...
