03425nam a22004335i 4500 978-0-387-87486-9 DE-He213 20260521092014.0 cr nn 008mamaa 110413s2009 xxu| s |||| 0|eng d 9780387874869 99780387874869 10.1007/978-0-387-87486-9 doi 571.95 23 Young, Alvin Lee. author. The History, Use, Disposition and Environmental Fate of Agent Orange [electronic resource] / by Alvin Lee Young. New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Vietnam and the Agent Orange Controversy Revisited -- A History of the Development and Procurement of Tactical Herbicides -- The Military Use of Tactical Herbicides in Vietnam -- Removal from Vietnam and Final Disposition of Agent Orange -- Agent Orange and its Dioxin Contamination -- The Testing of Aerial Spray Equipment, and Ecological Impacts of the Programs at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida -- Monitoring Studies of Former Agent Orange Storage Sites in Mississippi and Johnston Island -- Agent Orange and Dioxin Remediation and the Return to Vietnam. For almost four decades, controversy has surrounded the tactical use of herbicides in Southeast Asia by the United States military. Few environmental or occupational health issues have received the sustained international attention that has been focused on Agent Orange, the major tactical herbicide deployed in Southern Vietnam. With the opening and establishment of normal relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1995, the time has come for a thorough re-examination of the military use of Agent Orange and other "tactical herbicides" in Southern Vietnam, and the subsequent actions that have been taking place since their use in Vietnam. The United States Department of Defense has had the major role in all military operations involving the use of tactical herbicides, including that of Agent Orange. This included the Department's purchase, shipment and tactical use of herbicides in Vietnam, its role in the disposition of Agent Orange after Vietnam, its role in conducting long-term epidemiological investigations of the men of Operation RANCH HAND, and its sponsorship of ecological and environmental fate studies. This book was commissioned by The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment) with the intent of providing documentation of the knowledge on the history, use, disposition and environmental fate of Agent Orange and its associated dioxin. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY. ENVIRONMENT. ECOTOXICOLOGY. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. PUBLIC HEALTH/GESUNDHEITSWESEN. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer eBooks Printed edition: 9780387874852 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87486-9 Ver el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY ZDB-2-EES ddc ER 35242 35242 0 0 ddc 0 0 LE CICY CICY EL 2025-10-06 0 571.95 2025-10-06 08:44:26 2025-10-06 ER