For the better part of a decade, beginning in 1962, the U.S. government laid down about 19 million gallons of a powerful herbicide across Vietnam. It was a wartime practice designed to strip cover ...

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 ...

One of the U.S. military’s many challenges in the Vietnam War was fighting through a seemingly endless jungle that the enemy knew better than Americans ever could. Its solution was Operation Ranch ...

Agent Orange is an herbicide primarily known for its use by the U.S. military in the war in Vietnam. Its main ingredient is dioxin, which the United Nations calls “one of the most toxic compounds ...

Homes along the road from Korat to Chiang Mai, Thailand, in summer, 1970. (Photo by Spec. 5 Wayne Eusanio, U.S. Army) The Department of Defense has released a new list of locations outside Vietnam ...

When Congress created the PACT Act in 2022, it expanded the Department of Veterans Affairs health care and disability compensation available to Vietnam-era veterans who may have been exposed to the ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended, President Trump’s gutting of foreign aid has halted American efforts to address a toxic legacy and build a strategic partnership. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diem, an ...

When people think of war, they often picture the battlefield—the noise, the smoke, the horror, and the loss. But the Vietnam War left behind another, quieter battlefield that stretches across decades ...

I first went to Vietnam in 1997, three decades after I graduated from college, volunteered for the Peace Corps and was assigned to teach high school in a remote village in Nepal. One day the students ...

FILE- Flying a bare 100 feet above the jungle hills west of Hue, 5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. The chemicals used burn off heavy foliage hiding ...