Imagine there was a new Unabomber at work in the US, sending letter bombs out across the nation. Now imagine there was one in every state, so that 164 letter bombs went off in one year, killing 36 people, 15 of whom were children. Would that make headlines?
That was the number killed by unexploded ordnance in Laos in 2005. Almost all of the ordnance in Laos is American, left over from the secret air war of the late '60s and '70s. The US dropped almost 2 million tonnes of bombs in nine years, trying to stop the flow of troops and munitions from North to South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail.Imagine there was a new Unabomber at work in the US, sending letter bombs out across the nation. Now imagine there was one in every state, s...all »Imagine there was a new Unabomber at work in the US, sending letter bombs out across the nation. Now imagine there was one in every state, so that 164 letter bombs went off in one year, killing 36 people, 15 of whom were children. Would that make headlines?
That was the number killed by unexploded ordnance in Laos in 2005. Almost all of the ordnance in Laos is American, left over from the secret air war of the late '60s and '70s. The US dropped almost 2 million tonnes of bombs in nine years, trying to stop the flow of troops and munitions from North to South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail.«
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