Herbicides & Homicides

Title

Herbicides & Homicides

Subject

President Nixon and chemical and biological warfare.

Description

"There is one by-prodyct of America's environmental warfare that doctors are beginning to notice. Since 1967 there has been a rapidly increasing number of miscarraiges and malformed babies attributed to human exposure to herbicides. Several of the Army's most popular chemicals have been identified as possible teratogenic agents, meaning that like Thalidomide they are capable of producing serious birth defects when ingested by pregnant women. The Army has graciously agreed to restrict their use to areas of limited population"

Creator

The Middlebury Campus

Source

The Middlebury Campus

Files

1970-01-22_herbicides_and_homicides.jpg

Collection

Citation

The Middlebury Campus, “Herbicides & Homicides,” Fifty Years of Green: An Environmental History of Middlebury College since 1965, accessed November 27, 2024, https://omeka.middlebury.edu/fyg/items/show/273.