Vietnam War: Agent Orange Legacy

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The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

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The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975 , when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

U.S. forces sprayed sprayed 72 million liters of defoliants during the war to strip the enemy's cover.

More than half was Agent Orange, a blend of herbicides laced with dioxin, a type of chemical linked to cancer, birth defects and lasting environmental damage.

Vietnam has spent decades cleaning up the toxic legacy of the war, in part funded by belated American assistance.

Donald Trump ’s cuts to USAID stalled key projects in Vietnam .

Vietnam now has to negotiate a new reality where the U.S. president says the country can no longer afford to help other countries.

The more urgent problem is if that cleanup efforts are interrupted, the now-exposed contaminated soil could get into waterways and harm more people.

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