More than 270 million bomblets were dropped onto Laos – UXO Clearance

More than 270 million bomblets were dropped onto Laos

At left is a “mother” cluster bomb still packed with hundreds of cluster bomblets (or “bombies”).

At right is a cluster bomb which failed to split open mid-aid to scatter hundreds of “bombies” on an acre of land.

NEWSWORTHY
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- Safe removal of UXO
  
  XO (unexploded ordnance) are live bombs which failed to explode on impact. Most of the UXO in Laos resulted from cluster bombs which split apart mid-air Read More »
- Roger Rumpf, international peace activist, dies at 68
  
  Roger Arnold – Roger Rumpf, a peace activist who spent years in Laos and drew international attention to the problem of unexploded bombs from the Vietnam Read More »
- Voices From the Plain of Jars
  
  Voices From the Plain of Jars: Life Under An Air War has just been republished and, as historian Alfred McCoy notes in the foreword, “today the significance Read More »
- UXO clearance remains too inefficient
  
  Laos will begin to collect the bigger unexploded ordnance (UXO) discovered through clearance operations to keep evidence for explaining to future generations who dropped these bombs Read More »
- UXO Impact
  
  Laos is considered a least-developed country in which the majority of the population are living a subsistence-farming based lifestyle. In simple terms, the impact of UXO Read More »

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