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Chemical weapons kill weeds, crops, and plants in general

This is a new type of war, which deprives the enemy of his food, or deprives his livestock of their grass so that they die, and replace
Thus, there is a change in the images of the earth.

It's material discovered during World War II
For military purposes, it was not used, but it was later used to remove harmful grass from the land.

Even if the Vietnam War came, there was an opportunity
Available to be used for various purposes.

The first: destroying crops until the enemy is hungry.
Second: removing leaves from trees in forests so that they do not become an obstacle to the view.

It was not until the middle of 1969 that the United States sprayed about 5 million acres in Vietnam, for these purposes.

One of these materials has a chemical composition of Dichloro-Phenoxy-Acetic Acid 2,4 and other materials are similar to this.

These materials are sprayed undiluted on forest plants
Soon the trees will be stripped of their leaves, after a week or a little more.

Another substance, whose chemical composition is Sodium Dimethyarsinate, is used to destroy rice on farms.

(This is how the United States destroyed the food of the North Vietnamese by using plant pesticides that it spread on them by plane. From 1962 to May 1970, the raids they carried out for these purposes amounted to 19,000 raids. Each plane sprayed an area 200 feet wide and 10 miles long in each clearing. With the destruction of food in the fields, they stripped the trees of their leaves in the forests.