More than 100 people at Tou Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, are suffering from the after-effects of Agent Orange. Agent Orange after-effects? Agent Orange? victims.

According to the Vietnamese government's claim, the children who suffered from? Agent Orange? persecution of children, there are more than 500,000 people within Vietnam. The reason for the birth of so many deformed babies has to do with the massive use of a chemical called? Agent Orange. s herbicide. Why did the U.S. military only use Agent Orange in Vietnam? Was Agent Orange invented by the U.S. military specifically for the Vietnam War?

I'm sure there will be many people who will raise the question, after all, this war nightmare lasted from 1965 and is still not completely over. However, ? Agent Orange? s inventor, Arthur? Galston's original intention was not to create biochemical weapons for the U.S. military in Vietnam. Galston was a renowned American botanist who worked on how to help plants grow better and faster.

After Galston's tireless efforts, he finally synthesized a highly effective herbicide, which can quickly kill infectious diseases that infest plants and help them blossom and bear fruit faster, but the herbicide is not without its drawbacks, and it has the negative effect of making the plants themselves drop more leaves, so the herbicide is also known as ? defoliant?

Agent Orange

Galston himself had no idea that the U.S. Army biologists involved in the Vietnam War would use his research to create the dreaded biochemical weapon ? Agent Orange? It turned out that in the Vietnam War, Vietnamese soldiers were hidden in the dense jungle to fight guerrilla warfare, which gave the U.S. artillery nowhere to start, and the U.S. military suffered heavy casualties as a result.

In order to crack the war stalemate, so that the Vietnamese troops were completely exposed to the U.S. military fire. The U.S. Air Force, in conjunction with biologist **** Tong, developed a ? Ranch Action Plan? , in which the Air Force used planes to spray this deciduous herbicide on the dense Vietnamese jungle. According to statistics, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed as much as 76 million liters of Agent Orange, and thanks to this highly effective deciduous agent, the U.S. military quickly cleared the forests of those who had been overshadowed by the sun.

U.S. troops sprayed Agent Orange

Not only that, the U.S. military also sprayed this herbicide on Vietnam's crop-producing fields, leading to the mass death of a large number of rice and other crops in Vietnam. According to statistics, the area sprayed by the U.S. military at that time amounted to 10 percent of the total area of southern Vietnam, and a number of areas were repeatedly sprayed with the herbicide.

According to the statistics after the end of the Vietnam War, this war of biochemical crisis caused more than 3,000 villages in Vietnam to be hit by ? Agent Orange? victimization and the health of nearly 4 million people was affected. This practice of the U.S. military not only violated the lives and health of the Vietnamese people, but also led to hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen and women who fought in Vietnam to suffer from? Agent Orange after-effects. s painful suffering.

Because, ? Agent Orange? is not only a herbicide that allows plants to drop their leaves quickly, it is quite harmful to the human body. The dioxin contained in Agent Orange is so chemically stable that it takes nearly 18 years to naturally abate when sprayed in the natural environment; when it enters the human body, it takes 14 years for the toxin to be naturally eliminated.

The deformed children at Tou Du Hospital

The toxin, which has existed in the human body for a long time, has caused the Vietnamese people and the American soldiers who participated in the Vietnam War to suffer greatly, and the toxin not only made their bodies develop various serious diseases, but also changed their genes, for example, babies were born with congenital physiological defects and deformities.

When the inventor of the herbicide, Galston, realized that his herbicide was being used by the U.S. government on the battlefield, he tried to lobby the U.S. government not to use Agent Orange on the battlefield, but unfortunately, it was not until after the end of the Vietnam War that the U.S. declared a ban on the use of Agent Orange in the written regulations, but the harm caused by Agent Orange has been irreversible.