印支危机与美国在南越喷洒除草剂的设想与试验

为了应对1959～1960年印支危机,减少美国及南越人员的伤亡,有效杀伤越共有生力量,1961年美国提出了在南越喷洒除草剂的设想,并于8月份实施了第一次喷洒试验。试验效果虽不甚理想,但却为后来美国在南越的大规模除草剂行动拉开了帷幕,亦把越南人民和美国及其盟国军人推入到痛苦的深渊。

Indochina Crisis and the United States' Test on Spraying Herbicides in South Vietnam

In response to the crisis in Indochina from 1959 to 1960,the United States came up with an idea about spraying herbicides on South Vietnam in 1961,for the purpose of reducing their casualties and defeating Viet Cong.In August 1961,U.S.conducted the first spraying test.Although the results were far from satisfying,the test actually triggered U.S.army's later large-scale herbicide operation in South Vietnam,trapping the Vietnamese,the United States and its allied troops into the abyss of suffering.