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16 kwi 2023 · As many as 3 million victims of Agent Orange suffered from cancer and birth defects after the U.S. used this powerful herbicide during the Vietnam War. For ten years, the U.S. military terrorized a country with chemical weapons whose effects are still being felt today.
16 mar 2021 · Susan Hammond, Jacquelyn Chagnon and Niphaphone Sengthong forded a rocky stream along the trail and came to a village of about 400 people called Labeng-Khok, once the site of a logistics base...
23 wrz 2021 · Agent Orange was one of several toxic herbicides used by the US government during the Vietnam War to clear Southeast Asian jungles of foliage cover, but its chemical composition has had long-term consequences.
Agent Orange is a herbicide, classified as a defoliant, that was used most notably by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. Its primary purpose was strategic deforestation, destroying the forest cover and food resources necessary for the implementation and sustainability of the North Vietnamese style of guerilla warfare . [ 1 ]
From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three generations of Vietnamese. Now, the U.S. and Vietnamese governments have joined together in a massive cleanup project.
The use of Agent Orange and other herbicides by the US military during the Vietnam War left behind devastating and lingering environmental and health and disability effects, making it the most visible and intractable legacy of the war.
6 wrz 2019 · From 1962 to 1971, the US Air Force sprayed nearly 19 million gallons of toxic herbicides and defoliants across South Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch Hand, at least 11 million gallons of which was Agent Orange.
