Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty

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   A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War Edited by Christian G. Appy other titles in the series James T. Fisher, Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation Christian G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945–1966 H. Bruce Franklin, Vietnam and Other American Fantasies Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy Lee Bernstein, The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America David C. Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark H. Haefele, and Michael E. Latham, eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War Jonathan Nashel, Edward Lansdale’s Cold War James Peck, Washington’s China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism Edwin A. Martini, Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975–2000 Tony Shaw, Hollywood’s Cold War Maureen Ryan, The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War David Hunt, Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War Patrick Hagopian, The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing Jeremy Kuzmarov, The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs Robert Surbrug Jr., Beyond Vietnam: The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974–1990 Larry Grubbs, Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s Robert A. Jacobs, The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age Andrew J. Falk, Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940–1960 Jerry Lembcke, Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal Anna G. Creadick, Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America Kathleen Donohue, ed., Liberty and Justice for All? Rethinking Politics in Cold War America Jeremy Kuzmarov, Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century Roger Peace, A Call to Conscience: The Anti–Contra War Campaign    History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty EDWIN A. MARTINI University of Massachusetts Press Amherst & Boston Copyright © 2012 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 2012028716 ISBN 978-1-55849-975-1 (paper); 974-4 (library cloth) Designed by Sally Nichols Set in Minion Pro Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Martini, Edwin A., 1975– Agent Orange : history, science, and the politics of uncertainty / Edwin A. Martini. p. cm. — (Culture, politics, and the cold war) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-55849-975-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-55849-974-4 (library cloth : alk. paper) 1. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Chemical warfare. 2. Agent Orange—War use. 3. Agent Orange—Toxicology. 4. Agent Orange—Environmental aspects. 5. Veterans—Diseases—United States. 6. Veterans—Diseases— Australia. I. Title. DS559.8.C5M37 2012 959.704'38—dc23 2012028716 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. For Gracen Taylor and Kyan Jude “This page intentionally left blank” ...