Opinions in your inbox: Get exclusive access to our columnists and the best of our columns The tactic of using cluster bombs did not work in Laos, Cambodia or Vietnam – and it certainly isn’t ...

Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv and members of the Republican Party who've asked the Biden administration to release cluster munitions for use in Ukraine should beware of what they ask for. The results ...

Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv and members of the Republican Party who've asked the Biden administration to release cluster munitions for use in Ukraine should beware of what they ask for. The results will ...

That country is Laos. And the illusory playthings are cluster bombs. In the late 1960s and early '70s, the CIA-paid mercenaries and U.S. Air Force pilots who dropped them from the sky had their ...

Today, 50 years after the last U.S. bombs were dropped on Laos, there are still more than 4,000 people working to find and destroy cluster munitions. Cluster bombs are small and can be delivered ...

They're cheap, effective, and devastating. But they're also unpredictable, long-lasting, and lethal to civilians, especially ...

Laos was the victim of intense U.S. bombing campaigns, becoming the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita. The raids included an estimated 250 million cluster munitions, about 30% of ...

the United States dropped more than two million tons of cluster munitions on Laos. The work to clear Laos of cluster bombs has gone on for decades and is far from finished.

The US has used cluster bombs multiple times in wars. During the Vietnam War, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were heavily targeted with cluster bombs. Several decades later, the specter of cluster ...

Tens of thousands of Lao civilians have been killed or maimed by “bombies,” as they are called locally, including many children who mistook them, especially the tennis-ball-sized cluster bombs, for ...

As Amnesty International’s Brian Castner concludes, “There’s just not a responsible way to use cluster munitions.” In Laos, where the U.S. dropped cluster bombs extensively as part of its war in ...