What is Agent Orange?
[[Image:A vietnamese Professor is pictured with a group of handicapped children.jpg|thumb|200px| Group of handicapped children, most of them victims of Agent Orange]] '''Agent Orange''' is a very powerful [[herbicide]] that was used in the [[Vietnam War]]. It is a [[defoliant]] that [[wikt:destroy|destroys]] [[forest]]s. It was used by the [[United States]] [[military]] so their [[enemy|enemies]] had no [[place]] to hide. ==Problems== The problem with Agent Orange is that when it is released, some [[dioxin]]s are also generated. Dioxins stay a long time in the [[environment]]. They are very [[toxic]], and cause [[genetics|genetic]] modifications and [[cancer]].' ==Related pages== * [[Chemical warfare]] == Other websites == *[http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/Jul-Aug/buckingham.html Operation Ranch Hand: Herbicides In Southeast Asia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222170309/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/Jul-Aug/buckingham.html |date=2013-02-22 }} History of Operation Ranch Hand * [http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs.html Air Force Health Study] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212035702/http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs.html |date=2006-12-12 }} Study of Operation Ranch Hand veterans * [http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11242.html Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004] Institute of Medicine analysis of research on dioxin * [http://www.vietnamwarphotos.net/2012/10/agent-orange-and-removal-of-dioxin-in.html Vietnam war orange agent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604090848/http://www.vietnamwarphotos.net/2012/10/agent-orange-and-removal-of-dioxin-in.html |date=2013-06-04 }} Collection photos of victim caused by orange agent in Vietnam war and information about the orange agent, disease, effect and symptom {{sci-stub}} {{Vietnam War}} [[Category:Carcinogens]] [[Category:Poisons]] [[Category:Herbicides]]