Author Chris Arsenault says Canada was used as a testing ground for Agent Orange and other more toxic compounds.

Agent Orange contains dioxin, one of the most toxic compounds ever produced. It was used extensively as a herbicide in Canada between 1956 and 1984. The U.S. military wanted to test in New Brunswick because the environment there was most similar to that of Vietnam. Chris Arsenault documents the history of Agent Orange in his new book Blowback: A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home.

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