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Photo Essay: Legacy of a War
During the Vietnam War, tiny Laos became the most bombed country on Earth. Three decades later, its people are still living with the bombs left behind.

The toll of war: A woman in the village of Na Phat rings a U.S. bombshell used as a bell outside a small primary school. During the war in Vietnam, U.S. airstrikes turned neighboring Laos into the world’s most heavily bombed country per capita.

Photo: HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images

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Bomb garden: Vegetables grow from a half empty U.S. bombshell at the home of a family in the village of Na Phat. In 1964, the United States launched what became a nine-year series of airstrikes in Laos. The operation was aimed at stopping the Viet Cong, but by the end, a total of 1.9 million tons of bombs were dropped on the country of less than 4 million people.