Vietnam War Agent Orange Health Effects — A Treacherous Prize for the Veterans

May 14, 2010

During the Vietnam War, Americans used one of its most decisive and devastating herbicidal weapons in order to augment its forces in battlefields and cripple critical portions of the war zone favoring the enemy. An estimated 20 million gallons of herbicides were sprayed on the thick jungles of Southern Vietnam for the purpose of reducing the growth of plants and vegetations in the area thereby lessening the supply of food

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