From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:55:42 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: U.S. to clean Bien Hoa (Vietnam) |
Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base BBC April 20, 2019 The US has launched a multi-million dollar clean-up operation at an air base in Vietnam it used to store the notorious chemical Agent Orange. The ten-year programme, unveiled more than four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, will cost $183m (£141m). The site at Bien Hoa airport, outside Ho Chi Minh City, is considered the most contaminated in the country. Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by US forces to destroy jungles and uncover the enemy's hiding places. … For the entire article, see https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48000185 -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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