The pollution at these chemical plant sites, adjacent rivers and groundwater is well known within each affected state or province but not widely recognized beyond their localities. In this paper we assess the national long-term effects on land, groundwater and river resources where Agent Orange ...
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Agent Orange and the other toxic herbicides to which they had been exposed in Vietnam. Veterans began to file claims in 1977 to the Department of Veterans Affairs for disability payments for health care for conditions they believed were associated with exposure to Agent Orange, or more ...
Agent Orange was a phenoxyherbicide contaminated with dioxin used in Vietnam during the American Vietnam war from 1962-1971. It was used to remove forests and other foliage where troops opposing the US and South Vietnam governments could hide and also where food could be grown. Deforestation wa...
“DOD will continue to be responsive to the needs of our interagency partners in all matters related to taking care of both current and former service members,” said Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper. “The updated list includes Agents Orange, Pink, Green, Purple, Blue and White and ...
UNITED States. Dept. of DefenseThe article offers information on the "2nd Agent Orange and Dioxin Remediation Workshop" which was conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam on June 18-20, 2007. It states that approximately 40 Vietnamese military officers and civilians and 6 US participants took...
experienced by United States (US) Air Force RANCH HAND and US Army Chemical Corps personnel who handled or otherwise had direct contact with liquid herbicide, not from incidental exposure under field conditions where Agent Orange had been sprayed....
Spraying began in January 1962 under the code name “Operation Hades.” The code name, however, was seen as “PR-unfriendly” and was changed shortly thereafter to “Operation Ranch Hand.” The rainbow chemicals Agent Orange was first developed at the University of Chicago during World War II...
(December 1965), with the urging of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the rubber stamp approval of President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the United States Air Force started secretly spraying the forests of Laos with a deadly herbicide that was known as Agent Orange. ...
Agent Orange : actions needed to improve communications of Air Force Ranch Hand study data and results : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee o... During the Vietnam War, the United States sprayed herbicides, including Agent Orange, over large areas of jungle terrain. In the late...