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America’s secret plan to Nuke Laos
The U.S. Air Force wanted to use “nuclear weapons” against Vietnam in 1959 and 1968, and Laos in 1961, to obliterate communist guerrillas, according to newly declassified secret U.S. Air Force documents.
The 400-page document, titled, “The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: The War in Northern Laos 1954-1973,” was written [...]
Health Care post with boring numbers
As a follow up to the long and prosperous post, it was time to elaborate on the costs of health care in the US. For this, I use a report of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that takes hospital charges as a proxy for the rate of increases and to show where the [...]
