A Victim Of U.s. Chemical Warfare Achieves His Dream

Emily Buder, The Atlantic: Video
Thu, 04/26/2018 - 11:42am

During the Vietnam War, from 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military deployed an aggressive chemical warfare program codenamed Operation Ranch Hand. American troops in fighter jets sprayed highly toxic herbicides across more than 4.5 million acres of Vietnam in order to weaken the vegetative cover and food supply of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong armies.

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