A geographic information system for characterizing exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides in Vietnam.
This article originally appeared in Environ Health Perspect. Mar 2003; 111(3): 321–328. at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Abstract Between 1961 and 1971, U.S. military forces dispersed more than 19 million gallons of phenoxy and...
Post-Vietnam Military Herbicide Exposures in UC-123 Agent Orange Spray Aircraft
This article originally appeared in Environmental Research Volume 130, April 2014, Pages 34–42 at sciencedirect.com Post-Vietnam Military Herbicide Exposures in UC-123 Agent Orange Spray Aircraft Peter A. Lurker1...
Agent Orange In Vietnam
This article originally appeared in American Journal of Public Health at alphapublications.org VOICES FROM THE PAST EDITORIAL: AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM The 1995 Editorial on Agent Orange in Vietnam by Dwyer and...
Agent Orange and the Politics of Poisons (Day 2)
Agent Orange and the Politics of Poisons (Day 1)
2014 Operation Light the End of the Tunnel – Preview
CHUCK SEARCY - International Advisor, Project RENEW
The Audacity of Monsanto & the Short Memory of the Vietnam National University of Agriculture
Originally published on markashwill.com Note: This is obviously NOT a post about education. Given the relative freedom of speech that this blog has afforded me since I left the employ of a quasi-US governmental...
Veteran works to clean up bombs left from Vietnam War
Originally published on ABC7 News SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Vietnam War. Though U.S. and Vietnamese relations have long since been patched up, there are wounds...
Four decades later, following the trail of Agent Orange
Originally published by Barbara Peters Smith , Herald-Tribune / Friday, August 15, 2014 Remember the Agent Orange controversy? For 20 years after U.S. military veterans returned from Vietnam — where the notorious...
Q & A Discussion: AO Workshop (4)
Chuck Searcy enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1966 & served in the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion in Saigon 1967-1968. He has been living and working in Vietnam since January 1995, currently as International...
Susan Schnall: AO Workshop (2) VFP Convention July 2014
Susan Schnall served as a Navy nurse during the Vietnam conflict, caring for returning soldiers and marines at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. She was tried and convicted by a general court martial for anti-war activities in...
Paul Cox: AO Workshop (1) VFP Convention July 2014
Paul Cox giving update overview of our work, legislation & AO hotspots remediation clean up work being done. Paul is a Vietnam veteran and a founder of VFP chapter 69 in San Francisco. He has been working on Agent...
Lao women leading effort to clear millions of unexploded bombs left over from Vietnam War
Originally published on ABC.net Women are on the frontline of the effort to find and destroy millions of unexploded cluster bombs which are still claiming lives decades after being dropped on Laos. The US dropped up to...
Vietnam War legacy lives on in unexploded bombs
Originally published on Asian Corespondent by Sean Kimmons Communist state struggles with war relics as donor funds remain low, writes Sean Kimmons | @seankimmons QUANG TRI PROVINCE, Vietnam – A demining team carefully...
Agent Orange Legacy Scourges Vietnam
Originally posted on the Diplomat By Sean Kimmons July 04, 2014 Decades after the Vietnam War, victims wither away with scant efforts being made to tackle the deadly chemicals. DA NANG, Vietnam – The frail bodies of Toan...
Wedding goes on as scheduled, after cluster bombs are removed from family garden
Originally published on Project Renew Cam Lo, Quang Tri (26 June 2014) – A family of seven in An Hung Village has peace of mind now, after two deadly cluster bombs and one rifle grenade were safely destroyed from their...
Fungi farming brings safe money to bomb-addled Quang Tri
Originally published on Thanh Nien News Ever since the war, Quang Tri Province's poor have made a dangerous living selling the unexploded remains of the US's mammoth bombing campaign, but a new program gives them a safer...
Agent Orange’s Long Legacy, for Vietnam and Veterans
Originally published on the New York Times by Clyde Haberman Britain was the first to use defoliants as a war tactic in Southeast Asia. That was in the early 1950s in Malaya, then a British colony, before it became the...
Two children killed in front of their parents by cluster bomb left over from Vietnam War
Originally published by MAG by Mai Chi For seven years working for MAG in Quang Binh as a Community Liaison Officer, I have heard about so many accidents in the poor villages: two 14-year-old boys, one killed and one...
Stellmans’ graphical map of Agent Orange spraying in Vietnam from 1963-1970
Abolish War on the Planet and the Poor
Agent Orange Workshop at the 29th Annual Convention of Veterans For Peace Theme: Abolish War on the Planet and the Poor Hosted by VFP Chapter 099 Western North Carolina on July 23rd -27th 2014 The University of North...
Agent Orange and the Continuing Vietnam War
Originally published on Blackvoicenews.com by Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA) In a 2009 visit to Vietnam I asked a retired colonel in the Vietnam People’s Army about the notorious toxin “Agent Orange.” The colonel, who was...
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