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'''Agent Orange''' is a very powerful [[herbicide]] that was used in the [[Vietnam War]]. It is a [[defoliant]] that [[destroy|destroys]] [[forest]]s. It was used by the [[United States]] [[military]] so their [[enemy|enemies]] had no place to hide.
'''Agent Orange''' is a very powerful [[herbicide]] that was used in the [[Vietnam War]]. It is a [[defoliant]] that [[destroy|destroys]] [[forest]]s. It was used by the [[United States]] [[military]] so their [[enemy|enemies]] had no place to hide.
== Problems ==
The problem with Agent Orange is that when it is released, some [[dioxin]]s are also generated. Dioxins stay a long time in the environment. They are very [[toxic]], and cause [[genetics|genetic]] modifications and [[cancer]].
== Agent Orange Media ==
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File:US-Huey-helicopter-spraying-Agent-Orange-in-Vietnam.jpg|Huey Defoliation, National Archives: 111-CC-59948; originally found in Box 1 Folder 9 of Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
File:2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo(b,e)(1,4)dioxine 200.svg|[[2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin|2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin]] (TCDD)
File:2,4-D.svg|[[2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid]] (2,4-D)
File:2,4,5-T.svg|[[2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid]] (2,4,5-T)
File:Aerial-herbicide-spray-missions-in-Southern-Vietnam--1965-1971.jpg|Map showing locations of U.S. Army aerial herbicide spray missions in [[South Vietnam]] taking place from 1965 to 1971
File:US-troops-spray-Agent-Orange-from-riverboat-Vietnam.ogv|Military film footage of U.S. troops spraying Agent Orange from a riverboat in Vietnam in February 1969
File:U.S. propaganda for agent orange 1.jpg|A United States disinformation [[propaganda]] poster in Vietnamese describing how 'safe' Agent Orange is, intended to refute the "communist's propaganda". However, scientists within the United States had been protesting the use of Agent Orange since 1966, on the basis that it was a chemical weapon used indiscriminately, even before its toxic effects to humans were established in print.
File:Ivon Watkins Dow factory, New Plymouth.jpg|The Ivon Watkins-Dow factory in [[New Plymouth]], [[New Zealand]]
File:Leaking Agent Orange Barrels at Johnston Atoll.jpg|Leaking Agent Orange barrels at [[Johnston Atoll]] circa 1973.
File:Agent Orange at Johnston Atoll 1976.jpg|Rusting Agent Orange barrels at [[Johnston Atoll]], circa 1976.
</gallery>
== Other websites ==
== Other websites ==
*[http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/Jul-Aug/buckingham.html Operation Ranch Hand: Herbicides In Southeast Asia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222170309/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/Jul-Aug/buckingham.html |date=2013-02-22 }} History of Operation Ranch Hand
*[http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/Jul-Aug/buckingham.html Operation Ranch Hand: Herbicides In Southeast Asia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222170309/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/Jul-Aug/buckingham.html |date=2013-02-22 }} History of Operation Ranch Hand
* [http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs.html Air Force Health Study] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212035702/http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs.html |date=2006-12-12 }} Study of Operation Ranch Hand veterans
* [http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs.html Air Force Health Study] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212035702/http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs.html |date=2006-12-12 }} Study of Operation Ranch Hand veterans
* [http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11242.html Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004] Institute of Medicine analysis of research on dioxin
* [http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11242.html Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004] Institute of Medicine analysis of research on dioxin
* [http://www.vietnamwarphotos.net/2012/10/agent-orange-and-removal-of-dioxin-in.html Vietnam war orange agent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604090848/http://www.vietnamwarphotos.net/2012/10/agent-orange-and-removal-of-dioxin-in.html |date=2013-06-04 }} Collection photos of victim caused by orange agent in Vietnam war and information about the orange agent, disease, effect and symtom
* [http://www.vietnamwarphotos.net/2012/10/agent-orange-and-removal-of-dioxin-in.html Vietnam war orange agent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604090848/http://www.vietnamwarphotos.net/2012/10/agent-orange-and-removal-of-dioxin-in.html |date=2013-06-04 }} Collection photos of victim caused by orange agent in Vietnam war and information about the orange agent, disease, effect and symptom
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