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Agent Orange
The Long-Term Effects of Agent Orange

  By Sarah Dejak • July 24, 2014 Uncategorized
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War photographer Philip Jones Griffiths discusses the pictures he documented and the visions he saw when visiting Vietnamese villages that had been sprayed with Agent Orange, a herbicide that contains high amounts of dioxin. As targets of the United States’ plan for herbicidal warfare during the Vietnam War, these areas … Continue reading

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Agent Orange
The Weapon That Outlived the War

  By Phoebe Goldenberg • July 24, 2014 Uncategorized
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Vietnamese doctors and civilians discuss the ongoing impact of Agent Orange on the country 35 years after the end of the Vietnam War. Although the United States used the herbicide Agent Orange to kill the crops of communist insurgents, the chemical mixture has had devastating effects on the people who … Continue reading