The Role of Cluster Munitions in the War on Terror

Cluster bombs are conventional explosives that break apart in flight and scatter bomblets called sub-unitions they have a deserved reputation as an especially ugly weapon of war because of the danger they pose to civilians. The primary treaty governing the use of cluster munitions is the convention on cluster munitions CCM which was concluded at Oslo in 2008 and came into force in 2010. 23 NATO powers including the UK, France and Germany are parties to the CCM the United States is not either is Ukraine or Russia.