The destructive power of cluster bombs

Laos is the most bombed country in the world per capita, with more than 270 million cluster submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. An estimated 80 million of these ’bombies’, as they’re known in Laos, failed to detonate, remaining ’live’ in the ground. This footage of cluster bombs is courtesy of the National Regulatory Authority for the UXO/Mine Action Sector in the Laos. The NRA is a public institution of the Government of Laos. It is responsible for the regulation and coordination of all operators in the country working on the impact of unexploded bombs, artillery shells, grenades, landmines and like ordnance.