The Air Force used it extensively in Iraq. The 1,206 cluster bombs it reported using in Iraq included 818 CBU-103s and eighty-eight CBU-105s. 29 The WCMD can reduce humanitarian harm by ...

Cluster bombs have been banned by more than 100 countries because of the danger they pose to civilians. They typically release lots of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area.

Cluster munitions, while controversial, allow the user to eliminate multiple targets with one bomb. A single CBU-105, for instance, could theoretically achieve 40 individual kills against an ...