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

ABBREVIATIONS

xi ABBREVIATIONS aaas American Association for the Advancement of Science aba American Bar Association acda Arms Control and Disarmament Agency afb air force base afsc American Friends Service Committee arpa Advanced Research Projects Agency arvn Army of the Republic of Vietnam awg Arthur W. Galston bpi Bureau of Plant Industry bti Boyce Thompson Institute cbw chemical and biological weapons cca Contemporary Culture Archives cdtc Combat and Development Test Center cia Central Intelligence Agency cincpac commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command cni Committee for Nuclear Information ddt dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane dmz demilitarized zone dnsa Digital National Security Archive ewp Egbert W. Pfeiffer fas Federation of American Scientists frus Foreign Relations of the United States gfk George F. Kennan gpo Government Printing Office grfl Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library gvn government of Vietnam hac Herbicide Assessment Commission iaa indole-3-acetic acid icc International Control Commission xii ABBREVIATIONS ici Imperial Chemical Industries icj International Court of Justice iwc international war crimes jcs Joint Chiefs of Staff jfkl John F. Kennedy Presidential Library lbjl Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library maag Military Assistance and Advisory Group macv Military Assistance Command, Vietnam mri Midwest Research Institute msm Matthew S. Meselson nara National Archives and Records Administration narmic National Association on Research of the Military-Industrial Complex nas National Academy of Sciences nci National Cancer Institute ngo nongovernmental organization nlf National Liberation Front nsc National Security Council pppus Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States rg record group rotc Reserve Officers’ Training Corps rvn Republic of Vietnam salt Strategic Arms Limitation Talks scfr Senate Committee on Foreign Relations scpc Swarthmore College Peace Research Collection sds Students for a Democratic Society sr Senate Resolution ssrs Society for Social Responsibility in Science tcdd 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin tiba 2,3,5-triiodobenzoic acid un United Nations unep United Nations Environment Programme usaf United States Air Force usaid United States Agency for International Development usda United States Department of Agriculture vc Viet Cong vnaf (Republic of) Vietnam Air Force wbc War Bureau of Consultants The InvenTIon of ecocIde This page intentionally left blank ...