Agent Orange was the code name the U.S. military gave a defoliant mas- sively used in the Vietnam War to deprive the Vietcong from protection by the forest cover. The substance is a mixture of two herbicides developed in the United States during the 1940s and widely used in agriculture during the 1950s. The story of its non-military use has yet to be told, along with the health effects it has had on Vietnamese, Canadians, Americans, and New Zealanders unknowingly exposed to Agent Orange.
