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How Many Tons of Bombs Were Dropped On Vietnam?

“Where have all the flowers gone?”

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The numbers are incomprehensible. How is it that the U.S. could drop more than twice as many bombs on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as were dropped on Europe and Asia in all of World War II? (Source: Libcom.org) Or more to the point, how were the Generals who were running the war so…