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19 January 2010Washington Monthly Special Report: The Agent Orange Boomerang
Special report published by Washington Monthly: January/February 2010 issue
…In 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush and Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet agreed to undertake cooperative efforts to stop further leaks from the old Agent Orange storage sites. In 2007, Congress appropriated $3 million for the cleanup of dioxin in and around Da Nang and for health programs in surrounding communities, with $3 million more provided in the 2009 and 2010 budgets. Now that the U.S. government has established the precedent of helping, the Obama administration can and should move more forcefully toward finally solving this problem. In addition, the Ford Foundation has donated its own funds to help at the Da Nang Airport and in other affected areas.
Related Links:
Introduction: A Legacy Revisited, By Walter Isaacson
Agent of Influence, By Geoffrey Cain and Joshua Kurlantzick
The Environmental Consequences of War, By Clay Risen
A Hard Way to Die, By Phillip Longman
View a panel discussion on Agent Orange hosted by Washington Monthly and New America Foundation on the C-SPAN Web site and Ustream.TV.
Learn more about the foundation's Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin.
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