The Most Heavily Bombed Country On Earth The Timely Historian podcast

The Most Heavily Bombed Country on Earth

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It's not Japan. It isn't Germany. And it's not Vietnam, either. This is the story of the nation devastated by the so-called 'Secret War' - when it was relentlessly bombarded with 2 million tons of ordnance - and the people who are still living with the consequences today.

Main Source:

Rhodes, Ben, The World As It Is (London: 2018).

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De Sam Lazaro, Fred, Video Clip: How Giant African Rats are Helping Uncover Deadly Landmines in Cambodia, PBS (10 September 2019). Available at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-giant-african-rats-are-helping-uncover-deadly-land-mines-in-cambodia [Accessed: 02/2021].

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