Abstract
The entire June 6, 1983, issue of C&EN examined the uncertainties over the health effects of dioxin in the environment. Similarly, this issue is largely devoted to another matter involving chemicals in the environment: yellow rain. Yellow rain is the imprecise name given to toxin-based weapons the U.S. government charges the Soviet Union and its allies of using in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. The editorial in the June 6 issue described the dioxin matter as a brew of uncertain science, unanswered and sometimes unanswerable health questions, regulatory dilemmas, intensive press coverage, and legal maneuverings. As it turns out, that description fits the yellow rain issue too. The U.S. charge is in keeping with the Reagan Administration's characterization of the Soviet Union as the focus of evil in the modern world. It is also an incredibly serious charge. It undermines all arms negotiations because it accuses the Soviet Union of flagrant violation of both the 1925 ...
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