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- Agent OrangeAgent Orange was a powerful herbicide used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops.
- Agent Orange: BritannicaAgent Orange, mixture of herbicides that U.S. military forces sprayed in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 during the Vietnam War for the dual purpose of defoliating forest areas that might conceal Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces and destroying crops that might feed the enemy.
- VA to start processing Vietnam vets’ claims for conditions newly linked to Agent Orange poisoningVeterans Affairs officials on Thursday announced they will immediately begin processing disability claims for three new illnesses linked to Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam, even though final rules on the cases are still a few weeks away.
- Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam.The United States has been involved for more than two decades in a controversy over the military use of herbicides in Vietnam during the Vietnam era.
Agent Orange: Time Bomb
After 40 years of uninterrupted war, Vietnam eventually came out of it, on April 30, 1975. Yet the US army left a poison which is invisible today: dioxin. This powerful chemical weapon, produced by the multinational company Monsanto and better known as "Agent Orange", took possession of Vietnam's earth, water, and vegetation. Billions of Vietnamese people are victims of dioxin. They are suffering from serious deformities and cancers. 40 years after the last spreading, dioxin keeps wreaking havoc. Beyond the Vietnamese case, what are the States' responsibilities concerning their weapons choices and uses during armed conflicts? What are the potential compensations towards the victims and the devastated countries?
Source: AVON
What Is Agent Orange?
Agent Orange was a chemical herbicide used during the Vietnam War that had a devastating impact long after the conflict ended.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJaJbq9aRFI
Orange Witness
Orange Witness serves as a platform for those exposed to and affected by Agent Orange to tell their stories. Weaving audio interviews and archival footage the film paints a bleak picture of the damage caused by the use of herbicides 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T and TCCD internationally. Historically, Agent Orange has been associated with war, but the industrial and domestic of use of the chemical is revealed.
Source: Kanopy
Perspectives
Agent Orange: The Last Battle
The United States government used defoliants during the Vietnam War to curtail crop production and to eliminate enemy hiding positions. The defoliants were believed to be un-harmful to humans, which has been proven to be false. Illustrates the plight of two American Vietnam veterans who are dealing with life after being exposed to Agent Orange.
The History, Use, Disposition and Environmental Fate of Agent Orange
For almost four decades, controversy has surrounded the tactical use of herbicides in Southeast Asia by the United States military. Few environmental or occupational health issues have received the sustained international attention that has been focused on Agent Orange, the major tactical herbicide deployed in Southern Vietnam. With the opening and establishment of normal relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1995, the time has come for a thorough re-examination of the military use of Agent Orange and other "tactical herbicides" in Southern Vietnam, and the subsequent actions that have been taking place since their use in Vietnam. The United States Department of Defense has had the major role in all military operations involving the use of tactical herbicides, including that of Agent Orange. This included the Department's purchase, shipment and tactical use of herbicides in Vietnam, its role in the disposition of Agent Orange after Vietnam, its role in conducting long-term epidemiological investigations of the men of Operation RANCH HAND, and its sponsorship of ecological and environmental fate studies. This book was commissioned by The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) with the intent of providing documentation of the knowledge on the history, use, disposition and environmental fate of Agent Orange and its associated dioxin.
Battle's Poison Cloud
Effects on Vietnamese population, over three generations, of toxic chemicals used during Vietnam War including Agent Orange, containing dioxin. Failure of US to acknowledge its part in contamination, despite effects on US veterans and their offspring being recognised.
Vietnam: The Secret Agent
Using striking archive and war footage in support of interviews with veterans, scientists, attorneys, the U.S. Air Force, the Veterans Administration, Dow Chemical and more; this film documents the extraordinary history of chemical warfare, agricultural herbicides, damage to the world environment, and the plight of Vietnam veterans and their families as they struggle for treatment of exposure to Agent Orange and dioxin.
Source: Kanopy
The Dark Shadow of Agent Orange
The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War continues to cast a dark shadow over both American veterans and the Vietnamese.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzvTB0mOS0w