The final Agent Orange raid in Vietnam took place in 1970;... areas have begun to bloom again. But 19 years after the wars end, it seems plain that Agent Orange is killing and maiming human beings, something it never intended to do. The apparent toxic fal

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Q: 128 (IAS/1995)
‘The final Agent Orange raid in Vietnam took place in 1970;... areas have begun to bloom again. But 19 years after the war’s end, it seems plain that Agent Orange is killing and maiming human beings, something it never intended to do. The apparent toxic fall out from those clouds ... is a crop of human miseries including cancers, miscarriages and birth defects—that may persist for decades.” The offensive substance referred to in the above quotation is

question_subject: 

Science

question_exam: 

IAS

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0,17,79,30,22,27,17

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