To answer this decided edge, the U.S. military, aided by corporate contractors Dow Chemical and Monsanto, came up with the caustic, cancer-causing defoliant dubbed Agent Orange. It worked like a ...

Agent Orange was the most notorious chemical defoliant sprayed by US forces over Vietnam to destroy jungles and vegetation during the Vietnam war. Agent Orange contained dioxin, one of the most ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines the term “pesticide” as “Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, use as a plant ...

What no one suspected at the time was that the product that would prove most costly to Dow had not generated any protests; the company also manufactured the defoliant Agent Orange. Its use would ...

Any pilot can tell you that the unassuming Douglas A-1 Skyraider is the best close-range attack plane in history - here's why ...

The fight for compensation continued following the Vietnam War, when it was discovered that exposure to Agent Orange (a powerful herbicide and defoliant) caused various types of cancer and genetic ...

Now, they need to convince the Veterans Administration. It's no small feat, given the VA's reluctance to officially acknowledge a tie between esophageal cancer and the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent ...

They used jets to dump napalm, a chemical that burnt skin down to the bone, on suspected Vietcong strongholds, and Agent Orange, an ultra-strong defoliant, was used to destroy the jungle cover.

Joel joined the ranks of the disabled when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, what he says was the result of exposure to the millions of gallons of Agent Orange defoliant the U.S. poured on the ...

The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange has affirmed it will provide support to Tran To Nga to continue her lawsuit against US firms that manufactured the toxic AO defoliant used by US ...

John “Jack” Adinolfi, a lieutenant colonel who retired from the the U.S. Marine Corps in 1992, died at the age of 57 from exposure to the herbicide and defoliant Agent Orange used during the war.

British national and American resident George Black described Quang Tri as “tiny” in a recent talk in Hanoi to promote his ...