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What is a cluster bomb? “There are a wide variety of types of cluster munitions. According to the Cluster Munition Monitor, a total of 34 states have at one time developed or produced over 200 types of cluster munitions”. Both Russia and Ukraine are now deploying thousands of these weapons in their trench war battles.
My concerns are about the ones that fail to detonate and can actively lie for decades, becoming a danger to the civilians long after the end of the war. Russian cluster munitions are said to have a 30 percent failure rate, this is about the same failure rate of the cluster bombs we dropped on the country of Laos during our “secret war”.
As a resident here in Lao while working on a charitable school improvement project, I’ve learned of the tragic circumstances of cluster bombs. Five decades after the end of our war against North Viet Nam, Lao citizens are still in danger from the unexploded ordinance. These bombs we dropped (illegally) along the Ho Chi Minh trail, which is mostly in the country of Laos. From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Lao. More than 580,000 bombing missions, equal to a plane load of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day…