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The bee droppings that proved the yellow rain was pollen, not poison
A U.S. secretary says Soviets sprayed sticky "yellow rain" over Laos-poison or pollen?
The bee droppings that proved the yellow rain was pollen, not poison
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, testimony, and scientific tests that turned a Cold War chemical-weapons claim into a decades-long controversy. It traces who the Hmong were, the U.S. diplomatic accusation, and the competing lab analyses that raised the central question: what was really falling from the sky?
Person: Alexander Haig
Person: C. J. Mirocha
Person: Matthew Meselson
Date: 1981-1983
Location: Laos; Thailand…
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