100 nations sign cluster-bomb ban


	100 nations sign cluster-bomb ban

masbury

12-3-2008 2:51 PM

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cluster bombs, laos, treaty

masbury says:

US does not, along with Russia and China, all of which are manufacturers of them. Between 1964 and 1973, over Laos, the US air force dropped the equivalent of a fully-loaded B-52 bomber's payload of cluster bombs every 8 minutes for 9 years. Children still find them.

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12-4-2008 12:20 AM

ajwood

Interesting about Vietnam but recent history places the little buggers into Lebanon by Israel.

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