In a mission code-named Operation Ranch Hand, the U.S. military unleashed millions of gallons of the toxic defoliant during ...

Roque Vela Sr. shared Agent Orange story at The Wall That Heals candlelight vigil ceremony, honoring Vietnam War heroes and ...

Starting in the 1990s, the U.S. began helping its former enemy address wartime legacies like Agent Orange, a herbicide dropped from planes during the war to clear jungle brush, and which was later ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — A man once dubbed “Dr. Orange” for his Vietnam War-era scientific research into the herbicide Agent Orange is the focus of a federal complaint seeking records from the Department of ...

Agent Orange was known as a chemical called dioxin. Approximately 12 million gallons of it were used during the Vietnam War, and it killed any plant it touched. "There are still places in Vietnam ...

50 years after the herbicide was used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, Agent Orange continues to wreak havoc. While the Vietnam War ended decades ago, its effects continue to linger on.

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into ... diplomacy and unmask Soviet spies. A steely double agent who had grown disillusioned by communism, he continued to ...

At that time, the VA used a Vietnam War service medal as the basis for assuming Agent Orange exposure. In 2002, the VA changed its policy and instead started looking at whether each veteran had served ...