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Forgotten Crimes – Operation Ranch Hand

Part of The Forgotten Crimes Series To see an oppressive dictatorship make use of chemical weapons is harrowing enough yet it

The US-led the free world against the communist bloc who threatened to destroy democracy – this we are all told.

As long as the records show, humans have been constantly at work in designing bigger better weapons to kill each

The Cold War is defined as a period of restrained hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States for nearly 4-decades (1945-1991).

Just before its dissolution, the USSR was home to nearly 300 million people, making it the third largest country by