Scope Conditions Podcast
Scope Conditions Podcast
Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou
The Bombs America Left Behind, with Erin Lin
1 hour 6 minutes Posted May 6, 2026 at 8:00 pm.
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Today on Scope Conditions: when the bombs don’t go off, the war isn't over. We tend to think of peace as beginning when the bombs stop falling. But as our guest today shows us, this is only half the story. Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States engaged in massive bombing in Cambodia. Between 1965 and 1973, the U.S. dropped 500,000 tons of explosives there — more than the combined weight of every man, woman, and child in the country. Dr. Erin Lin, an Associate Professor of...