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一 | On August 10, 1961, American forces for the first time spayed Agent Orange in Vietnam as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand.,Here’s a closer look into this highly toxic defoliant chemical, the use of which by the US military during the 1955-1975 Vietnam War resulted in up to one million people being disabled, according to the Red Cross of Vietnam’s estimates.,What is Agent Orange?,The defoliant derived its name from the color of the orange-striped US gallon barrels in which the chemical was shipped and stored.,It was created in 1940 and used in the United States as an agricultural defoliant, as it had the ability to kill some plants while leaving others unaffected.,Using the Defense Production Act of 1950, the US government prodded several American companies to make Agent Orange for military use. A 50:50 mixture of the herbicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, the defoliant contains an extremely toxic dioxin compound.,Effects of Agent Orange,A 50:50 mixture of the 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, Agent Orange contains the Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, or TCDD, the most toxic of the dioxins, classified as a human carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency.,Even short-term exposure to TCDD can cause cancer, liver problems and a severe acne-like skin disease, known as chloracne. The dioxin is also linked to type 2 diabetes, immune system dysfunction, nerve disorders, muscular dysfunction, hormone disruption and heart disease.,Additionally, the chemical can cause miscarriages, spina bifida and other problems with fetal brain and nervous system development.,Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam,During the 1955-1975 Vietnam war, the first US defoliation missions were launched near the Vietnamese village of Dak To in 1961.,The goal was to remove cover and concealment used by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, so as to reveal hidden bases, communications centers and potential targets, and to improve visibility in tracking troop movements.,More than 13 million gallons (about 59 million liters) of Agent Orange was used by the US military in Vietnam, or almost two-thirds of the total amount of herbicides used during the entire Vietnam War.,The chemical was available in slightly different mixtures, sometimes referred to as Agent Orange I, Agent Orange II, Agent Orange III and “Super Orange”.,End of Agent Orange?,In 1969, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) urged the Pentagon to end its use of herbicides containing dioxin, specifically Agent Orange, something that the Department of Defense (DoD) eventually did.,Even so, the defoliation campaign continued, with the US military switching to Agent White, a chemical herbicide that did not contain the dioxin contaminant.,In May 1970, the US Air Force (USAF) flew its last defoliation mission, and almost a year later, the DoD announced that all crop destruction missions would also cease.,The remaining 2.22 million gallons of Agent Orange were moved by the USAF to Johnston Island Atoll in the South Pacific, where they were incinerated.,Legacy,The Vietnamese government said that up to four million people in the country were exposed to Agent Orange, and as many as three million people had suffered illness because of the defoliant.,The Vietnam Red Cross in turn pointed out that the defoliant had affected at least 150,000 children, and that babies in Vietnam are still being born with birth defects due to Agent Orange. In this regard, numerous studies revealed that dioxin levels are still in place in the blood samples of the citizens of both North and South Vietnam.,The chemical also caused immense environmental damage in Vietnam, with more than 3,100,000 hectares (31,000 km2) of forest being defoliated ( for comparison's sake, Taiwan measures 36,197 km2).,Opinion & AnalysisAnniversary of Agent Orange Disaster: Only United Can We Relieve the Suffering of Many Generations10:21 GMT,Agent Orange-related issues also emerged in the US after an increasing number of returning Vietnam veterans and their families began to report a range of health problems, including skin irritations, miscarriages, psychological symptoms, type 2 diabetes, birth defects in children and cancers such as Hodgkin’s disease, prostate cancer and leukemia.,1979 saw a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of 2.4 million US veterans, who were exposed to Agent Orange during their service in Vietnam. In 1984, seven major US chemical companies that manufactured the defoliant agreed to pay $180 million in damages to the veterans or their next of kin.,Vietnam War,The 1955-1975 Vietnam War, which involved Laos and Cambodia, pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong revolutionary organization against South Vietnam, supported by Washington.,Preconditions for the war pertained to the desire of North Vietnam, which defeated the French colonial administration in 1954, to unify the entire country under a single communist authority, like in the Soviet Union or China. The South Vietnamese government, for its part, sought to preserve a Vietnam more closely aligned with the West.,The US was concerned over the spread of communism to South Vietnam and then to the rest of Asia, which prompted Washington to end money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese government.,On August 2, 1964, North Vietnamese boats attacked a US Navy destroyer, the USS Maddox, patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin near Vietnam, in what was used by the White House as a pretext to escalate the war and send American combat units to the South East Asian country. However, the US costs and casualties in the war prompted Washington to withdraw American troops by 1973, and a couple of years later, South Vietnam fell to a full-scale invasion by the North.,An array of war crimes was committed by the US military during the war, including the My Lai massacre, in which up to 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, including women, children, and infants, were killed by US Army soldiers on March 16, 1968.,Another war crime pertains to Operation Speedy Express, conducted by the US Army in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta between December 1968 and May 1969 as part of the American military’s effort to pacify the Viet Cong. The operation led to 5,000 to 7,000 casualties who were reported to have been civilians.。

二 | 北京时间1月12日凌晨，据美国科技博客Verge称，知情人士透露，美国电信运营商Verizon正在测试游戏流媒体服务，这将成为该公司的一个重要新项目。据悉，Verizon游戏已初步开发并在英大盾机顶盒上运行，最终将进入安卓智能手机。在这两种情况下，可以使用一对Xbox One手柄控制服务。Verizon还没有公开发布这项服务，甚至还没有承认它的存在。Verizon一直在悄悄地招募玩家参加这项测试，目前包括135场比赛。

三 | 该公司承诺在测试完成后向参与者提供一张价值150美元的亚马逊礼品卡。在测试过程中，他们可以免费获得Nvidia Shield、Xbox One句柄和登录帐户。Verizon游戏应用程序将预先安装在公司提供的屏蔽设备上，Verizon将在本月晚些时候通过Google Play秘密向测试人员提供该应用程序。该项目的试运行预计在本月底完成。Verizon游戏屏幕截图显示，平台将包括“堡垒之夜”、“狂野保镖：救赎2”、“战神”、“第五场”和“命运2”。如果内容是真的，这将是一个伟大的游戏组合，因为军阀目前只在游戏站4上可用，而荒野保镖：赎回2还没有提供PC接口。然而，这些图片可能只是占位符。为了回应测试人员对延迟和糟糕体验的抱怨，Verizon目前专注于基本问题，而不是游戏选择。”测试的重点是性能。“在最近发给测试参与者的一封电子邮件中，Verizon游戏团队写道，”在后一阶段，当我们推动产品前进时，游戏库将包含您熟悉的大多数或所有游戏-但在早期阶段，我们主要关注引擎及其组件。

四 | ”因为Verizon游戏仍在它还处于初级阶段，所有游戏都没有保存选项。玩家每次都必须从头开始。“vzg”徽章出现在许多游戏中，测试参与者提供的图片也表明，utomik的软件似乎是Verizon游戏的一部分。Verizon Gaming可以使用AutoMik技术作为此项服务的基础。这些测试表明，Verizon也在推进云计算游戏策略，允许用户在更现代的设备和平台上运行游戏。微软已经在开发Xcloud项目，谷歌正在测试项目流，亚马逊也在开发自己的游戏服务。Verizon也可以借此机会展示其5G网络的速度。

五 | 5G的低延迟和高速传输可以解决游戏流媒体应用面临的诸多障碍。Verizon还可能将该服务添加到公司的家庭和移动数据包中。去年11月，该公司开始招聘“云游戏产品经理”，进一步证明了Verizon Gaming是一项5G优化服务。云游戏产品经理负责提供下一代游戏体验，充分利用Verizon 5G网络连接的能量和带宽，”该公司当时在招聘公告中写道。