a giant pile of bomb casings left over from the American bombing campaign in Laos, a stupendous and futile torrent of airborne destruction. And just beyond the junk heap of weaponry, a new ATM ...
Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...
10 years of U.S. air surveillance missions and bombings between 1964-1973 have given Laos the tragic title of the most heavily bombed country, per head of population, in the history of warfare. The ...
Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret War’.
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites During the nine years of the Vietnam War the US dropped more cluster bombs on neighbouring Laos than it did world wide during ...
Russian combat engineers have defused over 580 explosive objects in Laos, the Russian Defense Ministry ... BLU-63 and BLU-3B types of US-made aerial cluster bombs as well as artillery ordnance ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the commencement of a major strand in the US’s secret war, Operation Barrel Roll – a nine-year US bombing campaign that would see Laos becoming the most ...
MAG is a global humanitarian and advocacy organisation that locates, removes and destroys landmines, cluster munitions and unexploded bombs from places affected by conflict. Its experts have been ...