It could haunt you for a very long time. Three decades later, the walking wounded of the Vietnam War can still be seen in American streets. At the scene of the crime itself, the legacy of the war is far worse. Not only were the Vietnamese people slaughtered wholesale, the land itself was poisoned as well. Vast swaths of Vietnam were defoliated with Agent Orange.
People living there still show elevated levels of dioxin contamination.
For over a decade coca growers in Peru have accused the United States of secretly applying the fungus there to attack coca plants, in the process also harming food crops and farm animals. Mother Jones reports that Florida has put an indefinite hold on its plans to test the fungus for its own antidrug efforts after environmentalists and a state official warned that it could mutate, spread rapidly, and kill off other plants, including food crops. The fungus can, under certain circumstances, even cause lethal infections in humans with weakened immune systems. It's ironic, but some CBW research has been outsourced to former enemies. At the Institute for Genetics, in Kazakhstan, former Soviet biowarriors are being financed by the United States and Britain to test myco-herbicides, specifically a fungus called Pleospora, to kill opium poppies and marijuana plants.