US President Barack Obama is being urged to address the ongoing health impacts caused by Agent Orange when he visits Vietnam later this week. The US military sprayed around 12 million gallons of the ...

The latest and final in a series of congressionally mandated biennial reviews of the evidence of health problems that may be linked to exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the ...

The US military sprayed Agent Orange defoliant to deprive the communist Viet Cong of cover and food A French court has thrown out a bid by a former journalist to hold companies to account for ...

This lonely section of the abandoned Danang air base was once crawling with U.S. airmen and machines. It was here where giant orange drums were stored and the herbicides they contained were mixed and ...

The herbicide Agent Orange, which was repurposed and used as a chemical weapon in the Vietnam War, damages the brain in ways similar to early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study has found.

The United States has pitched in for the first time to clean up part of the toxic legacy left by the millions of gallons of the chemical compound codenamed Agent Orange that it dumped on Vietnam ...

Ending years of wait, the government agreed on Thursday to provide millions of dollars in disability benefits to as many as 2,100 Air Force reservists and active-duty forces exposed to Agent Orange ...

A girl who has health problems because of exposure to Agent Orange practices sewing at a special school In Da Nang, Vietnam, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Aniruddha Ghosal) DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The ...

Thirty years after hostilities ended between the US and Vietnam, relations remain strained by one of America's most notorious actions, the use of the chemical Agent Orange. The Vietnamese believe that ...

Although the bloody war ended in 1975, the fight had only just begun for generations of Vietnamese families. In 1962, John F Kennedy unveiled “Operation Ranch Hand” – a decision that would change the ...

Was there ever any determination as to the dangerousness of Agent Orange? Of course it was dangerous to plants, but what about the grunts? I personally wouldn't want to breathe in anything the U.S.