DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense FundDDT Wars is the untold inside story of the decade long scientific, legal, and strategic campaign that culminated in the national ban of the insecticide DDT in 1972. The widespread misinformation, disinformation, and mythology of the DDT issue are corrected in this book. DDT contamination has become worldwide, concentrating food chains and causing birds to lay thin shelled eggs that break in their nests. Populations of many species of predatory and