Yellow Rain

 

                                                                    Biological Weapons

 

 

 

Mycotoxins

 

 

 

Major Mycotoxins 

 

 

 

 

 

T2 Toxin 

 

After a lengthy investigation, U.S. analysts concluded in 1981 that the substance, dubbed “yellow rain,” was a chemical weapon made of fungus toxins and created by the Soviet Union. The U.S. secretary of state at the time, Alexander Haig Jr., announced that the Soviet Union had given the weapon to the Viet Cong and Pathet Lao, who dropped it on the Hmong (and other ethnic groups) in their villages and while they fled to refugee camps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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