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one of the guys at work used to do unexploded ordinance. he has some crazy pictures of the bombs they found at the mine in Laos.

Posted by mafic Jul 30 '18, 20:51

completely unexploded cluster bomb, with the outer shell cracked and all of the bomblets spilling out on the ground. he said typically 500+ bomblets, and in some cases you couldn't just blow the whole thing up, which means defusing all 500 individually.

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... why were the bombs there? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 21:17 4
- somehow, 50 years ago despite both President Johnson & Nixon saying we never have and we never will bomb Cambodia, ……….. -- (edited) - peglegpete Jul 30, 21:22
- I mean ... I guess Vietnam is the obvious answer. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 21:17 2
  - yep. US dropped like 2 million tonnes of explosives on Laos from ~1965-73. -- nm - mafic Jul 30, 21:25 1
    - Have they tried just slagging them with thermite? or is that too expensive/messy? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 30, 21:43

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one of the guys at work used to do unexploded ordinance. he has some crazy pictures of the bombs they found at the mine in Laos.

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