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by Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan
The Walrus

…We heard a terrifying noise which shook the ground; it was as if the earth trembled, rose up and opened beneath our feet. Enormous explosions lit up the sky like huge bolts of lightning; it was the American B-52s.

— Cambodian bombing survivor
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The data released by Clinton shows the total payload dropped during these years to be nearly five times greater than the generally accepted figure. To put the revised total of 2,756,941 tons into perspective, the Allies dropped just over 2 million tons of bombs during all of World War II, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 15,000 and 20,000 tons, respectively. Cambodia may well be the most heavily bombed country in history.
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The Cambodian bombing campaign had two unintended side effects that ultimately combined to produce the very domino effect that the Vietnam War was supposed to prevent. First, the bombing forced the Vietnamese Communists deeper and deeper into Cambodia, bringing them into greater contact with Khmer Rouge insurgents. Second, the bombs drove ordinary Cambodians into the arms of the Khmer Rouge, a group that seemed initially to have slim prospects of revolutionary success. Pol Pot himself described the Khmer Rouge during that period as “fewer than five thousand poorly armed guerrillas…scattered across the Cambodian landscape, uncertain about their strategy, tactics, loyalty, and leaders.”

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Previous “Seven Wonders of the World,” selected predominantly by Western intellectuals, had favored monuments and sites relevant to Western civilization. Non-Western wonders such as Angkor and the Great Wall of China were often left off from those lists. This online poll, while far from perfect, allows for a democratic process as it lets anyone from anywhere vote for what they feel should be included in the list.

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