The Vietnam War By the Numbers-- Part 2: Cost of War, Bombs and More Bombs

OTHER COSTS

About $250 billion:  U.S. spending on the war from 1965 to 1975 --  the equivalent of more than $1 trillion in today's dollars.

5 million to 7.8 million:  Tons of U.S. bombs dropped on Vietnam.

800,000: Estimated tonnage of unexploded bombs and land mines left at the war's end.

35,000 to 42,000:  People killed by that ordnance since the war's end.

$80 million:  Amount U.S. has spent on ordnance cleanup efforts so far.

--Cooter