Veterans and Agent Orange

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Seventh Biennial Update), Institute of Medicine

National Academies Press, 2009

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From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of U.S. base camps and outlying fire-support bases.

ISBN-13
9780309138840
ISBN-10
0309138841
Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2009
Publication date
2009-11-20
Pages
706
Dimensions
229x152x25
Weight
301