U.S. bombing of Laos averaged one attack every eight minutes for nearly a decade.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent sources including History.com, Legacies of War, Jacobin, and Wikipedia's CIA activities in Laos article, with math checking out for 580,000 missions over ~9 years. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- Kurlantzick Chronicles the U.S. Secret War in Laos and Creation of a ... (seed:military_and_intelligence)
- https://www.history.com/articles/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war (corroboration)
- https://www.legaciesofwar.org/legacies-library (corroboration)
- https://jacobin.com/2015/07/laos-us-bombing-vietnam-cold-war (corroboration)