* 1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U. S. Army.

U. S. Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois | Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese agricultural land

Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

The Red Cross of Viet Nam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange.

The 2, 4, 5-T used to produce Agent Orange was later discovered to be contaminated with 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin ( TCDD ), an extremely toxic dioxin compound.

Chemically, Agent Orange is an approximately 1: 1 mixture of two phenoxyl herbicides – 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid ( 2, 4-D ) and 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid ( 2, 4, 5-T ) – in iso-octyl ester form.

Numerous studies have examined health effects linked to Agent Orange, its component compounds, and its manufacturing byproducts.

Prior to the controversy surrounding Agent Orange, there was already a large body of scientific evidence linking 2, 4, 5-T to serious negative health effects and ecological damage.

But in 1969, it was revealed to the public that the 2, 4, 5-T was contaminated with a dioxin, 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin ( TCDD ), and that the TCDD was causing many of the previously unexplained adverse health effects which were correlated with Agent Orange exposure.

While the two herbicides that make up Agent Orange, 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T, remain toxic over a short period — a scale of days or weeks — they quickly degrade.

Three studies have suggested prior exposure to Agent Orange poses an increased risk of acute myelogenous leukemia in the children of Vietnam veterans.

Starting in 1991, the US Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to review the scientific literature on Agent Orange and the other herbicides used in Vietnam, including their active ingredients and the dioxin contaminant.

Military film footage of U. S. troops spraying Agent Orange from a riverboat in Vietnam

File: Agent-Orange -- stack-of-55-gallon-drums. jpg | Stacks of 55-gallon ( 200 L ) drums containing Agent Orange

File: US-Army-APC-spraying-Agent-Orange-in-Vietnam. jpg | U. S. Army armored personnel carrier ( APC ) spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese rice fields during the Vietnam War

Major Tự Đức Phang was exposed to dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange

Vietnamese people | Vietnamese babies, birth defect | deformed and stillbirth | stillborn after prenatal 2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin | dioxin exposure from Agent Orange

The Vietnam Red Cross reported as many as 3 million Vietnamese people have been affected by Agent Orange, including at least 150, 000 children born with birth defects.

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

Children in the areas where Agent Orange was used have been affected and have multiple health problems, including cleft palate, mental disabilities, hernias, and extra fingers and toes.

Dioxins from Agent Orange have persisted in the Vietnamese environment since the war, settling in the soil and sediment and entering into food chain through the animals and fish that feed in the contaminated areas.

Other than liver cancer, these are the same conditions the US Veteran's Administration has determined may be associated with exposure to Agent Orange / dioxin, and are on the list of conditions eligible for compensation and treatment .< ref name =" va-03-2010 ">

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Other examples include Jules de Grandin ( created by Seabury Quinn ), Doctor Occult ( created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster ) and Agent Jasi McLellan created by Cheryl Kaye Tardif.

Other hot rods include The Beatnik Bandit ( 1961 ), The twin engine Mysterion ( 1963 ), The Orbitron ( 1964 ), and The Road Agent ( 1965 ) among others.

Other books among teen readers include the popular Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz ; the Jimmy Coates series by Joe Craig ; and Agent Cody Banks.

Other television compositions included Wizards and Warriors ( 1983 ), Fame ( 1984 ), Lime Street ( 1985 ), Christine Cromwell ( 1989 ) and My Life and Times ( 1991 ) as well as the television films Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ), Double Agent ( 1987 ), Police Story: The Watch Commander ( 1988 ), My First Love ( 1988 ), She Knows Too Much ( 1989 ) and the feature film Number One with a Bullet ( 1987 ).

Other positions of national prominence followed, such as appointments to Special Counsel for the United States before the American-British Claim Arbitration, and Agent for the United States on the US-Mexico General and Special Claims commissions.

* Testing of Unregistered US Military Herbicides, including Agent Orange, at CFB Gagetown Ex Gratia Payments Order

The continued use of Agent Blue, one of the “ Rainbow Herbicides ”, by the United States was primarily meant as an operation to take away the enemy ’ s advantage on the terrain as well as deprive them of the resources they gained from the plant life.

Although many different chemical agents were used, the most well known today is “ Agent Orange ,” one of the “ Rainbow Herbicides .”

The Effects of Exposure to Agent Orange on the Intellectual Functioning, Academic Achievement, Visual Motor Skill, and Activity Level of the Offspring of Vietnam War Veterans.

* " Agent Orange in Vietnam: Recent Developments in Remediation: Testimony of Ms. Tran Thi Hoan ", Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, U. S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs.

* " Agent Orange in Vietnam: Recent Developments in Remediation: Testimony of Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong ", Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, U. S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs.

* Cox, Paul ; " The Legacy of Agent Orange is a Continuing Focus of VVAW ", The Veteran, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Volume 38, No. 2, Fall 2008.

* Children and the Vietnam War 30 – 40 years after the use of Agent Orange

*" Agent Orange / Dioxin Lawsuit " in " Vietnam Pictorial ", Vietnam News Agency

A modern example of this was the use of Agent Orange by the United States military in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Afterwards, the radioactive debris and soils were placed in a landfill on the island, along with residue from Agent Orange containers returned from Southeast Asia after the Vietnam War, PCBs, PAHs, dioxins, and sarin nerve gas from the Soviet Union and East Germany.

* Agent Orange, the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U. S. military during the Vietnam War

The most toxic dioxin, 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin ( TCDD ), became well known as a contaminant of Agent Orange, a herbicide used in the Vietnam War.

Agent Orange was the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

* Agent Orange – one of the widest dioxin exposure incidents, where U. S. military planes released a dioxin-contaminated herbicide over large areas of Vietnam.

* Agent Orange was an herbicide blend used by the U. S. military in Vietnam between January 1965 and April 1970 as a defoliant.

It is worth noting that there were other blends of synthetic auxins at the time of the Vietnam War whose containers were recognized by their colors, such as Agent Purple and Agent Pink.