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The United States military used the defoliant known as Agent Orange to destroy large swathes of Vietnam's jungle, depriving the Vietcong of cover, but both fighters and non-combatants of food. The chemical caused chronic illnesses for both the…

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act in 1964

Middlebury College Catalogue for offered courses during the 1965-55 academic year. Notably, the first appearance of an interdisciplinary major in Environmental Studies.

Middlebury Campus article regarding the first mention of the newly-formed Environmental Studies Major.

Middlebury College Newsletter informing of a recent novel by alumni Peter S. Jennison concerning the consequences of a fictional town in Vermont installing a prototype nuclear reactor.

Text of President Kennedy's Address regarding the next course of action in the upcoming "Cuban Missile Crisis". Kennedy ends his address calling for action in the United States' vested interest for "peace and freedom here in this hemisphere, and, we…

Student examination of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty enacted on August 5, 1963 between the UK, US, and the Soviet Union. The Middlebury student examines the increasing danger of nuclear weapons.

President Johnson signs into act the Highway Beautification Act, and "promised that 'as long as I am President, what has been divinely given by nature will not be recklessly taken away by man.'" Under this new law, states needed to "control…

Middlebury Campus article detailing a panel discussion held in Mead Memorial Chapter with various professors regarding the newly-developed Cuban Missile Crisis.

Middlebury students were primarily concerned with issues of nuclear disarmament and the accompanying Cuban Missile Crisis, but also with individual impacts on the local environment. Disarmament sparked a shift in the minds of students towards a more…