United States dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos; 80 million unexploded ordnance remains. Continue funding to clear ...

The peace treaty was signed. Prisoners of war were coming home. The last thing America needed was an international incident.

The neutralization and partition of the kingdom of Laos stipulated by the Geneva Accords of 1962 has served Hanoi’s war against South Viet Nam admirably. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the commencement of a major strand in the US’s secret war, Operation Barrel Roll – a nine-year US bombing campaign that would see Laos becoming the most ...

Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...

How could seemingly rational people—Americans like me—imagine they could win the war in Vietnam by subjecting Laos to such indiscriminate destruction? When I wrote that a secret war was being ...

On January 25, the State Department office that funds the clearance of unexploded bombs, land mines, and improvised explosive ...

Wisconsin Public Radio During the Vietnam War, the American military secretly recruited fighters in Laos to aid in a fight ...

In Laos, officials have said that the country needs $50 million annually for ongoing clearance of land mines and unexploded remnants of war. The government contributes $15 million and relies on ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton views an exhibit on Vietnam War bombing in Vientiane, Laos. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) No country in world history has been bombed more on a per ...

Obama has an opportunity to address the past by stepping up U.S. efforts to remove unexploded ordnance in Laos.