Legacies: Agent Orange

Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange

Okinawa served as the main US launchpad for the war in southeast Asia – and the island is still contaminated today from that usage.

Agent Orange & UXO in Vietnam, VFP 2020 Nat’l Convention

August 6, 2020

Watch the full video presentations by Susan Schnall, Paul Cox, Namaya, Chuck Searcy, and Heather Bowser.

Videos of the Waging Peace in Vietnam conference, Washington DC

July 13, 2020

Panel discussions from the George Washington University conference hosted in conjunction with the traveling exhibit.

Agent Orange: Lasting Legacy of War

April 27, 2020

This panel was featured at the 2018 Veterans For Peace convention held in St. Paul, Minneapolis. The full title is"...

Citizen Soldier’s Agent Orange Archives

January 19, 2020

Shared by Vietnam veteran Michael Uhl, with this introduction: In early 1978, Citizen Soldier, a nonprofit dedicated...

Victims Left Behind in US Agent Orange Cleanup Efforts

October 4, 2019

Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty. PHOTO: Many Vietnamese...

Ending War, American-Style

September 13, 2019

This Tomgram posted by Andrew Bacevitch on September 10, 2019, with introduction by Nick Turse, speaks to the moral...

Live from Spokane: Battling the Viet Nam war from the inside

August 25, 2019

Spokane Public Radio's Doug Nadvornick hosted the Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Inland Journal program featuring interviews...

Viet Nam: One Man’s Atonement in an Ocean of Grief

August 25, 2019

The following essay, penned by Viet Nam veteran Chuck Searcy, is a chapter in How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole" Countries...

Media coverage of Agent Orange widens its scope

August 5, 2019

In Public Radio International's The World broadcast of July 24, 2019, host Marco Werman interviews Susan Hammond with...

Agent Orange barrels found in Oregon Lake

June 23, 2019

What the heck?! Agent Orange barrels found at the bottom of Wallowa Lake in Eastern Oregon? The story is ongoing......

Fifty Years After, A Daunting Cleanup of Vietnam’s Toxic Legacy

May 18, 2019

This post originally appeared at www.e360.yale.edu. From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of...

Overcoming War Legacies: The Road to Reconciliation and Future Cooperation Between the United States and Vietnam

May 18, 2019

This post originally appeared at the aspeninstitute.org MARCH 26, 2019 • THE AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM PROGRAM...

Vietnam honours US woman for Agent Orange relief work

April 18, 2019

Hanoi (VNA) – President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Nguyen Phuong Nga on April 16 presented the Friendship Order, a notable distinction of the Vietnamese State, to Executive Director of the War Legacies Project (WLP) Susan Marie Hammond.

Patrick Leahy: War legacies and the expanding U.S.-Vietnam partnership

April 17, 2019

When I became a senator for Vermont in 1975, one of the first votes I cast was for a law to stop funding the war in Vietnam. That law passed by one vote…. Words cannot adequately describe the magnitude of the catastrophe of that war for the people of both countries.