The history, use, disposition, and environmental fate of Agent Orange
By: Alvin L. Young
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780387874852
Description: Few environmental or occupational health issues have received the sustained international attention that has been focused on Agent Orange, the major tactical herbicide deployed in Southern Vietnam. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vietnam and the Agent Orange controversy revisited; title: A history of the development and procurement of tactical herbicides; title: The military use of tactical herbicides in Vietnam; title: Removal from Vietnam and final disposition of Agent Orange; title: Agent Orange and its dioxin contamination; title: The testing of aerial spray equipment, and ecological impacts of the programs at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; title: Monitoring studies of former Agent Orange storage sites in Mississippi and Johnston Island; title: Agent Orange and dioxin remediation and the return to Vietnam; title: Postlude: Can there be a satisfactory end to the Agent Orange controversy?