Veterans and Agent Orange

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Veterans and Agent Orange

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Author: Institute of Medicine

Type: Hardback

ISBN: 9780309288866

Date: 6th March, 2014

Publisher: National Academies Press

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"From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of US base camps and outlying fire-support bases. Mixtures of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), picloram, and cacodylic acid made up the bulk of the herbicides sprayed. The main chemical mixture spraye

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