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History > 20th century > Cold War > USA, Vietnam
Agent Orange, Agent Blue
warning: graphic / distressing
Phan Thanh Hung Duc, 20, a patient at the Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, last October.
Photograph: Richard Hughes
The Forgotten Victims of Agent Orange Viet Thanh Nguyen and Richard Hughes NYT VIETNAM '67 SEPT. 15, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/
in 1967, the United States sprayed 5.1 million gallons of herbicides with the toxic chemical dioxin across Vietnam, a single-year record for the decade-long campaign to defoliate the countryside.
It was done without regard to dioxin’s effect on human beings or its virulent and long afterlife.
Agent Orange was simply one of several herbicides used, but it has become the most infamous.
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Agent Orange Operation Ranchhand begins early 1962
The Dark Shadow of Agent Orange Video Retro Report The New York Times 12 May 2014
The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War continues to cast a dark shadow over both American veterans and the Vietnamese.
Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1lpjkBg Watch more videos at: http://nytimes.com/video
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzvTB0mOS0w&list=PL4CGYNsoW2iAOqPtxm4RHo205w_R1IWuH
Related http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000002872288/agent-orange.html?playlistId=100000002148738
Operation Ranchhand begins early 1962
The goal of Ranchhand is to clear vegetation alongside highways, making it more difficult for the Vietcong to conceal themselves for ambushes.
As the war continues, the scope of Ranchhand increases.
Vast tracts of forest are sprayed with "Agent Orange," an herbicide containing the deadly chemical Dioxin.
Guerrilla trails and base areas are exposed, and crops that might feed Vietcong units are destroyed. http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19192698
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/23/
Agent Blue
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/12/
Kennedy's foreign policy
in November 1961 (Kennedy) sanctioned the use of defoliants in a covert operation code-named Ranch Hand, every mission flown signed off by the president himself and managed in Saigon by the secret Committee 202 - the call sign for defoliating forests being "20" and for spraying fields "2".
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When US troops became directly embroiled in Vietnam in 1964, the Pentagon signed contracts worth $57m (£36m) with eight US chemical companies to produce defoliants, including Agent Orange, named after the coloured band painted around the barrels in which it was shipped.
The US would target the Ho Chi Minh trail - Viet Cong supply lines made invisible by the jungle canopy along the border with Laos - as well as the heavily wooded Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from the South, and also the Mekong Delta, a maze of overgrown swamps and inlets that was a haven for communist insurgents.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/29/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/29/
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