40 Years On, Laos Still Covered with Unexploded Ordinance

With less than 1 percent of the unexploded ordinance in Laos removed more than 40 years after the end of the Vietnam War, the United States, which dropped it on the poverty-stricken country, is set to boost funding to remove it.

Deaths and injuries from unexploded ordinance, or UXO, have decreased dramatically over the past few years as the US has scaled…