Quote Originally Posted by Dream of the iris
Well wait are they talking about cluster bombs with nukes or is it just for any bomb whatsoever?
A cluster bomb is not a nuke. It is a conventional bomb that is really a container holding hundreds or thousands of little "bomblets." The cluster bomb opens over a target and the bomblets scatter over the target area. I don't know the details, but imagine hundreds of grenade-sized bombs raining down and exploding all over an area the size of a football field all at once. They are very effective anti-personnel and anti-armor weapons for taking out large numbers of spread out forces. Sometimes the cluster bomb has a mixture of different types of munitions, like anti-personnel, armor-piercing, and incendiary all in one package, so it takes out the vehicles, takes out the people, and lights everyting on fire in one shot.

I haven't really followed this issue much, but I guess one problem is the large number of unexploded bomblets that litter a target area. It creates a sort of mine field and a lot of civilians get injured by accidentally detonating unexploded bomblets. Is that what this treaty is about?