Editing Cluster munition (section)

=== Vietnam War ===
{{Seealso|Vietnam War#Weapons}}
During the Vietnam War, the US used cluster bombs in air strikes against targets in Vietnam, [[Laos]], and [[Cambodia]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://thediplomat.com/2010/12/07/vietnams-cluster-bomb-shadow/?all=true | work=GlobalPost | location=Tokyo | title=Vietnam's Cluster Bomb Shadow | first=Irwin | last=Loy | date=7 December 2010 | access-date=29 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 2, 1963 |title=Aims at Red Guerrillas |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025327/1963-10-02/ed-1/?sp=2&q=%22cluster+bombs%22&r=0.293,0.15,0.882,0.508,0 |work=The Daily News of the Virgin Islands |location=Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands |access-date=April 29, 2024 |quote=Airman 1/c John V. Stryker of Elizabeth, N.J. loads fragmentation cluster bombs under the wing of a T-28 plane in Soc Trang, South Vietnam |page=2 }}</ref>

Of the 260 million cluster bomblets that rained down on Laos between 1964 and 1973, particularly on [[Xieng Khouang province]], 80 million failed to explode.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/03/laos-cluster-bombs-uxo-deaths | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Forty years on, Laos reaps bitter harvest of the secret war | first=Ian | last=MacKinnon | date=3 December 2008 | access-date=29 July 2012}}</ref> As of 2009 about 7,000 people have been injured or killed by explosives left from the Vietnam War era in Vietnam's [[Quảng Trị province]] alone.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/vietnam/100602/cluster-bombs-landmines-demining-quang-tri?page=full | work=GlobalPost | location=Boston, MA | title=In Vietnam, cluster bombs still plague countryside | first=Daysha | last=Eaton | date=6 June 2010 | access-date=29 July 2012}}</ref>