Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the "tactical use" Rainbow HerbicidesIt is widely known for its use by the US military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971 It is a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5T and 2,4DIn addition to its damaging environmental effects, traces of dioxin Of the 517 cases of disabilities and birth defects so far documented by the War Legacies Project in Laos, about threefourths, like malformed limbs, are identifiable to the untrained eye as conditions of the sorts now linked to exposure to Agent Orange There are few things in this world with the longterm toxicity of Agent Orange, the chemical herbicide used in Vietnam Polonium210 in a cup of tea will kill you – just ask former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko – but, unlike Agent Orange, its damage isn't generational For the uninitiated, Agent Orange is the moniker given to the "mixture of butoxyethanol esters of 2,4
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