Cluster Bomb Production & Use

By Alex Chisholm May 23rd, 2008

Interesting chart from The Economist reporting on the international effort to ban cluster bombs.

According to the Cluster Munitions Coalition, a lobby group, 98% of those killed by cluster bombs have been civilians, and over a third have been children. Some countries, including Britain, the world’s third-largest user, are calling for exemptions for certain types of cluster weapons.

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