United States dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos; 80 million unexploded ordnance remains. Continue funding to clear ...

The peace treaty was signed. Prisoners of war were coming home. The last thing America needed was an international incident.

When Lee Po Cha traveled to Laos in November 2022, he was given the opportunity to detonate a bomb. It was the first time in 48 years he had been back to his birth country. It became the most ...

How could seemingly rational people—Americans like me—imagine they could win the war in Vietnam by subjecting Laos to such indiscriminate destruction? When I wrote that a secret war was being ...

Obama has an opportunity to address the past by stepping up U.S. efforts to remove unexploded ordnance in Laos.

Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...

After 30 years of conspiracy theories and myth making, this film uncovers the story of the CIA's most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare: The Secret War in Laos ...

The Laos war wasn’t completely separate — there was some overlap — but it was largely separate. Why was this kept secret? Do you think that Congress would have balked at this operation? Why was the ...