Agent Orange was an herbicide used by the U.S. military to kill shrubs and plants during the war in Vietnam. Some 12 million gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed over South Vietnam at up to 50 times the concentration recommended for killing weeds. About five million acres of forests and crops were destroyed and an estimated 4.5 million Vietnamese and hundreds of thousands of American soldiers were exposed.
Thirty-five years after the war, harmful effects of Agent Orange/dioxin are still being...
