Agent Orange
A herbicide and defoliant chemical mixture, containing dioxin, used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War era to destroy forest cover and crops. Its toxic effects and disposal practices caused lasting environmental and health damage, and barrels of it were buried at military bases in various locations.
Claims that use this term
- Veterans buried Agent Orange barrels at a Seoul base in the 1970s.
- Okinawa bases buried toxic barrels near schools and veterans testify to Agent Orange there
- Base construction destroyed Diego Garcia’s reef and forest and leaked radioactivity and Agent Orange.
- U.S. troops buried hundreds of leaky Agent Orange barrels at a Seoul base