Can I ask where the name came from? The only "Agent Orange" I ever heard of was during one of my papers on Vietnam. Just curious really, I am not trying to bash anything but the name itself carries some bad feelings for a lot of people.
"Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military in its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Agent Orange was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallons (210 L) barrels in which it was shipped. It is a roughly 1:1 mixture of two phenoxyl herbicides in iso-octyl ester form, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T).
Agent Orange was by far the most widely used of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides". Between 1965 and 1970 close to 12,000,000 US gallons (45,000,000 L) of Agent Orange were sprayed in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia by the US military to defoliate rural/forested land, depriving guerrillas of food and cover, and as part of a general policy of forced draft urbanization by destroying the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside.[1]
According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects.[2]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
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