What We Are Reading Today: When the Bombs Stopped

What We Are Reading Today: When the Bombs Stopped
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Updated 20 May 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: When the Bombs Stopped

What We Are Reading Today: When the Bombs Stopped

Author: Erin Lin

Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United states dropped 500,000 tonnes of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, and child in the country.

Fifty years after the last sortie, residents of rural Cambodia are still coping with the unexploded ordnance that covers their land.