ABSTRACT
This chapter zooms in on one legacy of the war, the use of dioxin-yielding herbicides, Agent Orange, and its consequences in human life. The chapter provides an overall picture of the wartime use of dioxin-yielding herbicides, which is merely the tip of a colossal iceberg. Under it is a complicated and long history of exchanges of scientific findings and political considerations. The use of the chemicals also did not stop in Vietnam but spread around the world, including the United States throughout the 1970s. The chapter offers a sketch of the life of the selected AO families in the three different areas of the research that provides a picture of how the AO families embrace and live with their misfortune.
