Agent Orange at Okinawa's Futenma Base in 1980s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2133386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Mitchell (0009-0008-9832-7939, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 25 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s155746601203269x |
| OpenAlex | W4410183471 |
| Language | EN |
The U.S. Marine Corps buried a massive stockpile of Agent Orange at the Futenma air station in Okinawa, seriously sickening the base's former head of maintenance and potentially contaminating nearby residents and the ground beneath the base. The barrels were abandoned in Okinawa at the end of the Vietnam War - when the U.S. government banned the dioxin-laden defoliant for health reasons - and were buried at the installation in the city of Ginowan after the Pentagon ignored repeated requests to safely dispose of them, according to the veterans who served at the installation in the 1970s and 1980s
Agent Orange · Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Space exploration and regulation · Horticulture
| Highly cited | No |
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