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| | |  Agent Orange: Encyclopedia II - Agent Orange - Use in VietnamDuring the Vietnam War, the US instituted a massive herbicidal program that ran from 1961 through 1971. The aim of the program was two-fold, one to destroy the "cover" provided by the jungle-like forest, and another to deny food to the enemy.
A variety of chemicals, fifteen in total, were tested or used operationally during this program. The primary broad-leaf herbicides sprayed during the "testing" phase of the program between 1962 and 1964 were Agent Orange, Agent Purple and Agent White. The chemicals themselves had no color, the na ...
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| | | | Agent Orange: Encyclopedia - 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) is a common systemic herbicide used in the control of broadleaf weeds. It is the third-most widely used herbicide in North America and the most widely used herbicide in the world.
2,4-D was developed during World War II by a British team at Rothamsted Experimental Station, under the leadership of Judah Hirsch Quastel, aiming to increase crop yields for a nation at war. When it was commercially released in 1946, it became the first successful selective herbicide and allowed for greatly enhanced weed control in wheat, maize (corn), rice, and similar cere ...
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| | | | Agent Orange: Encyclopedia II - Gulf War syndrome - Depleted Uranium Birth Defects and Immune System Damage Because uranium is a heavy metal and chemical toxicant with nephrotoxic (kidney-damaging)[2], teratogenic (birth defect-causing)[3], and potentially carcinogenic[4] properties, there is a connection between uranium exposure and a variety of illnesses[5]. The chemical toxicological hazard posed by uranium dwarfs its radiological hazard because it is only weakly radioactive. In 2002, A.C. Miller, et al., of the U.S. Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, found that the chemical generation of hydroxyl radicals by depleted uranium ...
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| | | | Agent Orange: Encyclopedia II - Gulf War syndrome - Depleted Uranium Birth Defects and Immune System Damage Because uranium is a heavy metal and chemical toxicant with nephrotoxic (kidney-damaging)[22], teratogenic (birth defect-causing)[23], and potentially carcinogenic[24] properties in lab-animals, some sources believe there a connection between uranium exposure and a variety of illnesses[25]. However, these are only known to have occured from large exposures.[26] To date, nobody has proven that anyone who served in the Gulf War received exposures large enough to cause any harm. The chemical toxicological hazard posed by uranium dwarfs i ...
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| | | | Agent Orange: Encyclopedia - Vietnam War rule
So. Vietnam - 1,250,000+ US - 58,226
Wounded: 153,303 (US)
The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War 1 was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or "Viet Cong") against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably the United States military in support of the South, with US combat troops involve ...
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| | | | Agent Orange: Encyclopedia II - Gulf War syndrome - Potential Sources of Exposure to Depleted Uranium The United States Air Force and Army use the 30 mm PGU-14/B armor-piercing incendiary round in the GAU-8 Avenger cannon of the A-10 Thunderbolt II, and in AH-64 Apache helicopters. Most of the uranium munitions used in combat have been in the form of 30 mm and smaller rounds[27]. The Marine Corps uses DU in the 25 mm PGU-20 round fired by the GAU-12 Equalizer cannon of the AV-8B Harrier, and also in the 20 mm M197 gun mounted on AH-1 helicopter gunships.
The US Army uses depleted uranium for antitank munitions in an alloy with around ...
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| | | | Agent Orange: Encyclopedia II - Gulf War syndrome - Chemical weapons Many of the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome are identical to those experienced in organophosphate poisoning. Gulf War veterans were exposed to a number of sources of these compounds, including nerve gas and pesticides. [17][18]
Over 125,000 U.S. troops and 9,000 UK troops were exposed to nerve gas and mustard gas when and Iraqi depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq was bombed in 1991. [19]
Some, including Dr. Richard Guthrie, an expert in chemical warfare at Sussex University, have argued that a likely cause for the increase in birth defects ...
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| | | | Agent Orange: Encyclopedia II - Gulf War syndrome - Controversy There is controversy over whether or not Gulf War syndrome is, in fact, a physical medical condition related to sufferers' Gulf War service (or relation to a Gulf War veteran).
Gulf War syndrome - Evidence for.
United States Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi's panel found that pre-2005 studies suggested the veterans' illnesses are neurological and apparently are linked to exposure to neurotoxins, such as the nerve gas sarin, the anti-nerve gas drug pyridostigmine bromid ...
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| | | | Agent Orange: Encyclopedia II - Gulf War syndrome - Controversy There is controversy over whether or not Gulf War syndrome is, in fact, a physical medical condition related to sufferers' Gulf War service (or relation to a Gulf War veteran).
Gulf War syndrome - Evidence for.
United States Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi's panel found that pre-2005 studies suggested the veterans' illnesses are neurological and apparently are linked to exposure to neurotoxins, such as the nerve gas sarin, the anti-nerve gas drug pyridostigmine bromid ...
See also:Gulf War syndrome, Gulf War syndrome - Depleted Uranium Birth Defects and Immune System Damage, Gulf War syndrome - Trend, Gulf War syndrome - Neurotoxicity, Gulf War syndrome - Gulf War Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War syndrome - Potential Sources of Exposure to Depleted Uranium, Gulf War syndrome - Controversy, Gulf War syndrome - Evidence for, Gulf War syndrome - Evidence against Read more here: » Gulf War syndrome: Encyclopedia II - Gulf War syndrome - Controversy |
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