Veterans and agent orange: update 2008
Auteur :
Institute of Medicine / Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice / Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Seventh Biennial Update)
Éditeur :
National Academies Press
ISBN :
9780309138840
Date de publication :
20 nov. 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of U.S. base camps and outlying fire-support bases.