Technology & Warfare
Who was the Italian pilot who dropped the first aerial bomb in 1911?
Giulio Gavotti
Bombings often strengthen these movements.
Insurgent movements
About what percent of bombs fail to detonate?
20%
What do farmers avoid using to stay safe?
Heavy machinery
UXO makes fertile land ______.
Dangerous
What bomber could wipe out everything in a 2-mile stretch?
B-52 bomber
Trauma from war can be passed down ______.
Intergenerationally
What does UXO stand for?
Unexploded Ordnance
Farming smaller, safer areas lowers what?
Productivity
Farmers earn less because they invest less in ______.
Tools
What bomb explodes into fragments moving 8× the speed of sound?
MK-82 bomb
Two cities that rebounded quickly after WWII bombings.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
UXO causes about how many deaths per day worldwide?
55
Fear-driven farming creates a cycle of ______.
Poverty
By what percent did cash income drop?
60%
Aerial warfare made attacks ______ and more efficient.
Faster
Persistent violence traps nations in cycles of ______and ______ .
Poverty and conflict
UXO is most common in what type of land?
Fertile farmland
Lin calls this “arrested ______.”
Development
Many families respond to danger by ______.
Migrating seasonally
The MK-82 bomb was used in which conflicts?
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Yemen
Anti-perpetrator attitudes have been studied in which countries?
Vietnam, Spain, Ukraine
How much has the U.S. spent on cleanup?
$10 billion+
What country is used as the main case study?
Cambodia
UXO weakens state ______ and ______ .
Power and legitimacy