Archiving Every Bomb the United States Has EVER Dropped

Bryan Bender at the Boston Globe reports how Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson has assembled a report on every bomb the US has ever dropped since WWI(!!!), “a compilation that, at the click of a mouse and a few keystrokes, reveals for the first time the sheer magnitude of destruction inflicted by the US and its allies from the air in the last century.” Going by the name: Theater History of Operations Reports (or THOR), this hyperarchive of US military violence is truly staggering. “One particularly relevant example: From October 1965 to May 1975, at least 456,365 cluster bombs were dropped on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, according to the records analyzed.”

One thought on “Archiving Every Bomb the United States Has EVER Dropped

  1. CBU-24A/B Cluster Bomb weighed 834 pounds if I remember correctly. I helped drop 628 or them on the downed Spector C130 gunship in Laos in April 1972. Sure hope we caught some dignitaries on the scene.

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