Cluster munitions are missiles and bombs that burst in the air over the ... Over a decade after the Vietnam war ended, Ly became a farmer, yet she remained terrified of striking an unexploded ...

The D-74 was not supposed to be in the arsenal of Russia, as the Soviet Union began exporting these guns to friendly ...

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites During the nine years of the Vietnam War the US dropped more cluster bombs on neighbouring Laos than it did world wide during ...

In Laos, where the United States dropped a vast amount of cluster bombs during the Vietnam War, unexploded bomblets left behind continue to main and kill nearly half a century after the war ended.

The "widely condemned" use of cluster bombs can also be traced back to the 1939-45 conflict, said Al Jazeera. They were used during the Vietnam War, when the US dropped 413,130 tonnes of cluster ...