The Vietnam War’s ‘time bomb’ legacy for Laos
The confrontation is immediate — a hundred cluster bombs suspended from the ceiling on fishing wire. This is the display that greets visitors to the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) centre in Vientiane.
Between 1964 and 1973, more than 580,000 US bombing missions made the once-tranquil country the most heavily-bombed nation, per capita, in history.
