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Check this: http://www.cepr.org/meets/wkcn/7/765/papers/Roland.pdf Page 3: We exploit a uniquely data-rich historical episode to estimate the impact of war on long-run economic performance, the U.S. bombing of Vietnam (what Vietnamese call "the American War"). The Indochina War, centered in Vietnam, was the most intense episode of aerial bombing in human history: "the United States Air Force dropped in Indochina, from 1964 to August 15, 1973, a total of 6,162,000 tons of bombs and other ordnance. U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft expended another 1,500,000 tons in Southeast Asia. This tonnage far exceeded that expended in World War II and in the Korean War. The U.S. Air Force consumed 2,150,000 tons of munitions in World War II - 1,613,000 tons in the European Theater and 537,000 tons in the Pacific Theater - and 454,000 tons in the Korean War" (Clodfelter 1995). Thus Vietnam War bombing represented at least three times as much (by weight) as both European and Pacific theater World War II bombing combined, and about thirteen times total tonnage in the Korean War. Given the prewar Vietnamese population of approximately 32 million, U.S. bombing translates into hundreds of kilograms of explosives per capita during the conflict. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom O'Lincoln" <suar...@alphalink.com.au> <sartes...@earthlink.net> > > It's commonly said that more bombs were dropped on Vietnam during that > war > than in all of World War II. Can anyone suggest an authoritative source > for > this -- one I can footnote? > > thanks. net ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
