Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed roughly 11 million gallons of the chemical agent dioxin used in Agent Orange across large swaths of southern Vietnam.
Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by ... Bien Hoa airport is considered the most contaminated in Vietnam The amount of dioxin in the area is four times higher than that found at Danang airport ...
The U.S. Veterans Administration should pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for Agent Orange-related health problems without making them file ...
Efforts at Agent Orange decontamination reinforce the work that continues to go into addressing old challenges even as both countries seek to maximize new opportunities.
Agent Orange's history in Vietnam is well known but one scientist is trying to raise the profile of another pesticide used ...
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 ...
The best, but also the most controversial weapon in their arsenal were chemical defoliants such as ‘Agent Orange ... in history I traveled 33 hours to Vietnam but was denied entry because ...
A nationwide fundraising campaign to support victims of Agent Orange was launched on December 19, organised by the Vietnam ...
50 years after the herbicide was used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, Agent Orange continues to wreak havoc. While the Vietnam War ended decades ago, its effects continue to linger on.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains a list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships associated with military service in Vietnam and possible exposure to Agent Orange based on military records.
A French court is set to hear a landmark case against more than a dozen companies that supplied the US with the notorious chemical Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The case was brought by Tran ...
The U.S. Veterans Administration must honor the terms of a 1991 settlement and pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for Agent Orange-related ...