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 ...

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 ...

Using cluster bombs did not work in Laos, Cambodia or Vietnam – and it certainly isn’t going to be a game-changer for Ukraine against Russia.

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

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lewis Simons, who reported from Asia and the Middle East for decades, about the legacy of cluster bombs in Laos. The most ...

Iran reportedly fired a ballistic missile equipped with a cluster warhead into central Israel, marking the first confirmed ...

Moral, Personal Stances for Laos and Cambodia Over Cluster Bombs July 29, 2023 12:11 PM By Tommy Walker; Activists stand near cluster bombs in Lebanon on Sept. 12, 2011.

Laos is a landlocked ... including as the base of stilt houses. Cluster bombs are small bombs that disperse waves of shrapnel and ball bearings when they explode. An estimated 30% of all the ...

And the illusory playthings are cluster bombs. In the late 1960s and early '70s, ... Diplomatic relations with Laos, though certainly strained, never were broken.

The U.S. dropped over 2 million tons of ordnance on Laos, including cluster bombs, in the 1960s and '70s. To this day, many people are killed, crippled and disfigured by them, writes Lewis M. Simons.