Cluster Bomb Treaty Agreed Upon by more Than 100 Countries

More than 100 countries meeting in Dublin have agreed upon a treaty that would ban the use of cluster bombs in warfare yet several countries refused to recognize the current treaty, most notable the United States, Russia and China.

After ten days of talks the signing countries came to agree that the banning of cluster bombs would make the world a safer place.

Cluster bombs are dropped from a plane in a large container; the container breaks open in midair and dispenses several “bomblets”, about the size of a soda can, which then detonate when they hit the ground. Cluster bombs are typically used as a means of causing destruction across a large area.

While these bombs are designed to detonate on contact there are times when they fail to explode when landing, posing serious hazards to civilians when they come across them at a later date.

Those countries that did not sign the treaty have insisted that cluster bombs can be extremely useful and wanted to see changes to the current treaty that would be more lenient.

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