Unit III Case Study Impact of Toxic Industrial Chemicals/Materials  (TICs/TIMs) Many forms of TICs have been used during combat operations in wars throughout the world. One of the more memorable uses of a TIC is the use of Agent Orange, a defoliant including dioxin as well as numerous other chemicals, during the Vietnam War with an impact that spans across the past 50 years. The U.S. government and manufacturers of the deadly chemical allegedly sprayed and otherwise disbursed it from planes and helicopters indiscriminately for the express purpose of destroying the jungle vegetation that served as a camouflage for the North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops opposing the U.S. military. One could easily reason that any chemical that would completely defoliate a 40-foot-tall jungle canopy could equally destroy any other lifeform as well. The Veterans Administration, the U.S. federal government, and manufacturers have begun actions to accept some responsibility for the health issues left in the wake of this deadly chemical on Vietnamese people and Vietnam War combat veterans still suffering today.  HLS 3500, Weapons of Mass Destruction 3 Research Agent Orange, and the possibility that the chemical has been responsible for the death and health issues of millions of people during and since the Vietnam War. Based on prior scientific research by the facilities developing and producing this product, what scientific information existed to warn users that the chemical was a hazard to human and animal life either through direct contact, consumption of food products that were contaminated by indiscriminate spraying of the chemical, or through mishandling during manufacture, storage, or distribution of this chemical? Was the chemical intentionally, indiscriminately, disbursed knowing that immediate and long-term effects would impact any human and animal life coming in contact with the chemical? Even in the war in Afghanistan today, our military and political leaders must consider the immediate and long-term impact of collateral damage as well as justification of any weapon of mass destruction, chemical or otherwise. Did such scientific research during the creation of Agent Orange provide any level of risk analysis that provided our military leaders with a projected percentage of collateral damage, which equated to acceptable losses of human or animal life directly or indirectly related to the aerial disbursement of this chemical? If such risk analysis did exist, did it include long-term impact projections? What effort has the United States government provided to compensate and care for those whose lives have been destroyed by this chemical within the U.S. and the country of Vietnam? Are such chemicals still used in military operations? What should be done for the millions of families across the globe who suffer from the debilitating effects of this chemical? Is blatant abuse of the distribution of industrial toxic chemicals relevant today? Please rely on ...

1. Unit III Case Study Impact of Toxic Industrial
Chemicals/Materials
(TICs/TIMs) Many forms of TICs have been used during combat
operations in wars throughout the world. One of the more
memorable uses of a TIC is the use of Agent Orange, a defoliant
including dioxin as well as numerous other chemicals, during
the Vietnam War with an impact that spans across the past 50
years. The U.S. government and manufacturers of the deadly
chemical allegedly sprayed and otherwise disbursed it from
planes and helicopters indiscriminately for the express purpose
of destroying the jungle vegetation that served as a camouflage
for the North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops opposing the
U.S. military. One could easily reason that any chemical that
would completely defoliate a 40-foot-tall jungle canopy could
equally destroy any other lifeform as well. The Veterans
Administration, the U.S. federal government, and manufacturers
have begun actions to accept some responsibility for the health
issues left in the wake of this deadly chemical on Vietnamese
people and Vietnam War combat veterans still suffering today.
HLS 3500, Weapons of Mass Destruction 3 Research Agent
Orange, and the possibility that the chemical has been
responsible for the death and health issues of millions of people
during and since the Vietnam War. Based on prior scientific
research by the facilities developing and producing this product,
what scientific information existed to warn users that the
chemical was a hazard to human and animal life either through
direct contact, consumption of food products that were
contaminated by indiscriminate spraying of the chemical, or
through mishandling during manufacture, storage, or

2. distribution of this chemical? Was the chemical intentionally,
indiscriminately, disbursed knowing that immediate and long-
term effects would impact any human and animal life coming in
contact with the chemical? Even in the war in Afghanistan
today, our military and political leaders must consider the
immediate and long-term impact of collateral damage as well as
justification of any weapon of mass destruction, chemical or
otherwise. Did such scientific research during the creation of
Agent Orange provide any level of risk analysis that provided
our military leaders with a projected percentage of collateral
damage, which equated to acceptable losses of human or animal
life directly or indirectly related to the aerial disbursement of
this chemical? If such risk analysis did exist, did it include
long-term impact projections? What effort has the United States
government provided to compensate and care for those whose
lives have been destroyed by this chemical within the U.S. and
the country of Vietnam? Are such chemicals still used in
military operations? What should be done for the millions of
families across the globe who suffer from the debilitating
effects of this chemical? Is blatant abuse of the distribution of
industrial toxic chemicals relevant today? Please rely on the
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Write a minimum three-page, double-spaced paper summarizing
the effects of the use of Agent Orange not only on the victims,
but also on the families and communities in which victims live
as well as the citizens of Vietnam.

3. Your paper should discuss: signs and symptoms; time span
between exposure and symptom expression; mode of exposure
(injection, inhalation, cutaneous, etc.), prevention, and
treatment with statistical data; locality impacts (weather,
location, population, etc.); sociological impacts; scientific data
and research techniques; technology and development; and
counteraction strategies.
Your case study must fully comply with APA requirements,
which means that the case study must include an APA formatted
cover page with the APA running head, APA headings
(Introductory heading, intermediate headings, and a
conclusion), APA formatted in-text citations for all direct
quotes and paraphrased information, and an APA formatted
reference section with the heading, references, centered above
that re