Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment

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The InvenTIon of ecocIde This page intentionally left blank AgenT orAnge, vIeTnAm, And The ScIenTISTS Who chAnged The WAy We ThInk AbouT The envIronmenT DAVID ZIERLER THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS • ATHENS AND LONDON © 2011 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Designed by Walton Harris Set in 10.5/14 Minion Pro Printed digitally in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zierler, David, 1979– The invention of ecocide : agent orange, Vietnam, and the scientists who changed the way we think about the environment / David Zierler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. isbn-13: 978-0-8203-3826-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8203-3826-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn-13: 978-0-8203-3827-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8203-3827-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Nature—Effect of human beings on. 2. Extinction (Biology) 3. Agent Orange—Health aspects. 4. Agent Orange—Toxicology. 5. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Chemical warfare. gf75.z54 2011 576.8'4—dc22 2010044005 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available Friends Fund the Publication of this work was made possible, in part, by a generous gift from the University of Georgia Press Friends Fund. Parts of chapter 8, “Against Protocol,” originally appeared in substantially different form as “Against Protocol: Ecocide, Détente, and the Question of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam, 1969–1975,” by David Zierler, in Environmental Histories of the Cold War, edited by J. R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger, Copyright © 2010 the German Historical Institute. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. The views, opinions, and interpretations expressed herein are those of the author alone and are not necessarily those of the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Government. This book is based on fully declassified and open source material. To Sadie Vella This page intentionally left blank ...