The Most Bombed Country On Earth
Bombed more than Germany and Japan were during WWII combined
Laos is a small landlocked nation that most people would struggle to point to on a map. It is one of the last solidly communist nations following the Cold War. Laos was heavily involved in the Vietnam War as a proxy battleground for the United States, the Soviet Union, and North Vietnam. This small nation of just 7.5 million happens to be the most bombed country in the world.
In an eight year period, the United States dropped over 260 million bombs on Laos.
In 2016, then President Obama visited Laos, making him the first US president to do so. During the visit, he admitted that the United States dropped more bombs on Laos between 1964 and 1973 than they did on Germany and Japan during World War II. Combined.
The heavy concentration of bombs in such a small area over such a small population easily makes Laos the most bombed country in the world per capita.
Why Laos?
Why did Laos draw so much firepower from the United States? The small kingdom was embroiled in a civil war during the Vietnam War that pitted Laos royalists against upstart communists. The communists in Laos were getting support from the USSR and China, and in turn, they were supporting their…
