An international effort is underway in rural areas of Laos, where 80 percent of the population lives, to remove the bombs.

The result was more bombs dropped on Laos – whose neutral status was protected under agreements signed at the Geneva Conferences in 1954 and 1962 – than in the entirety of World War II.

“Over the course of the war, U.S. bombing of Laos would become so intense that ... The war became a template for CIA proxy wars all over the world, from Central America in the 1980s to today ...

The plane was flying in from Laos with what the military believes could be the remains of Americans killed in a secret battle during the Vietnam War ... lab in the world, and I don’t think ...