LETTER: Why build bombs that don't explode

America dropped 80 million unexploded bombs on Laos. Why do we build bombs that don’t explode?

It’s not only Laos. Today, right now, we’re still defusing them in Guam from WWII, I believe. Can we not wrap the casing with detonators instead of just one on the nose of the bomb? Even a sort of timer also would work.

How come nobody has said anything about why we build bombs that don’t explode?

Why don’t we just drop bags of American currency — wouldn’t that be more sensible, and — I’ll bet — cheaper? People would be so busy looking for the cash that war would probably stop right then and there.

Common sense goes a lot further than bombs. —Marcel Guy Cote, Libby