Essay On Agent Orange Vietnam

Agent Orange Was it really a moral choice to use Agent Orange during the Vietnam Conflict? Agent Orange was a defoliant used during the Vietnam conflict. According to the U.S. Veteran Dispatch ,the herbicide was first called in to action in 1962 by the U.S. military. The powerful herbicide known as “Agent Orange” contained two main chemicals dioxin and TCDD 1, 4, 5. These chemicals were already potent by themselves but when combined they created one of the most powerful herbicides known to man. Agent Orange was only one of the many “Rainbow herbicides”. The different rainbow herbicides used in Vietnam were: Agent White, Agent Purple, Agent Blue, and the most lethal of them all Agent Orange. The nick names given to the different defoliants and herbicides were the cause of the barrels they were shipped in. For example Agent Orange was shipped in an orange striped barrel. The defoliant was
No the health effects caused by Agent Orange were kept under were kept under wraps basically as soon as the military knew of the poientional health risks. The Army took action to keep Agent Orange from the public in 1966. By editing news broadcasts but even if some information on the herbicide reached U.S. soil the people still didn’t know what it was so it did not affect them in their daily routine. The following are the diseases found by The American Cancer Society that are the result of Agent Orange: Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, Porphyria, Respitory problems, Prostate Cancer, Multiple Myeloma, Hepatobiliary cancers, Nasal cancer, Bone cancer, Female reproductive cancer, Renal cancer, Testicular cancer, Leukemia, Birth defects, Low birth weights, Child hood cancer, and many other diseases and health problems. If you think you have an Agent Orange related disease the VA makes an assumption based on your se time, where you were located and what your line of work when you