[Peace-discuss] More cluster bombs

[Roger Helbig]

What are the 102 nations?  How many of them have Air Forces or long range
artillery or rockets?  In other words, how many of them actually might have
the means to employ cluster munitions?

I would expect that cluster munitions were developed because of the tactics
used by the Chinese in the Korean War as well as Japanese Banzai charges.

Just curious - just saying 102 nations voted NO doesn't really tell the
whole story.

Roger



On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> U.S. Will Keep Older Cluster Munitions, a Weapon Banned by 102 Nations
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> By JOHN ISMAYDEC. 1, 2017
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> Members of the South Korean Air Force prepared to load cluster bombs onto
> a fighter during an exercise in August at an air base in Suwon, South Korea.
>  CreditKim Jong-soo/Reuters
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> WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will allow the United States military to once
> again arm itself with older cluster munitions, a type of weapon that has
> been banned by 102 countries largely because of concerns that they
> disproportionately harm civilians.
>
> The change, detailed in a memo released on Friday, reverses a prohibition
> issued under President George W. Bush, and appears to be a concession by
> the United States that finding safer variants of the weapons has so far
> failed.
>
> Most American cluster munitions held abroad appear to be positioned for a
> possible war with North Korea. Under a 2008 agreement, the Pentagon
> maintains a stockpile of more than 1.5 million cluster munitions,
> containing over 90 million bomblets, in South Korea.
>
> Cluster munitions include a wide variety of rockets, bombs, missiles and
> artillery projectiles that scatter smaller weapons, called submunitions,
> over a target area. Some dispensers can release as many as several hundred
> bomblets.
>
> Though the United States is not a signatory to the international treaty
> banning the weapons, it pledged in June 2008 to sharply restrict their use
> and reduce risks to civilians.
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