During the American "secret war" to destroy communist supply lines between Laos and Vietnam, the United States dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos from 1964 to 1973 ‒ more than were ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, the United States began a massive bombing campaign on the country of Laos that signaled America’s full entry into the Vietnam War. By the time the war ended in 1973, the U.S ...

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 ...

After a ceasefire agreement came into force, the United States withdrew from Laos, leaving behind a country full of bomb craters and unexploded ordnance. In many places, cluster munitions still ...

In Laos and Cambodia, the CIA assesses that scores ... Skyraiders fire cluster bombs filled with Sarin nerve gas into the 559 Group Transportation base, which is also home to families of NVA ...

VIENTIANE: Over the past three months, Lao and Russian military bomb disposal experts have removed 285 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a planned total area of 187,180 square metres ...

The crash site is located in Laos’ Saravan province, one of the most heavily littered areas with remaining unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S. during the secret war in Laos. DPAA needs the land ...