Now four years of bargaining over cluster munitions have failed despite a drive by America, backed by Russia and China, to promote a deal that would have curbed but not banned the devices.Cluster weapons are a prime target for arms-control campaigners because of their indiscriminate effect.
As a result, broad-spectrum efficacy is generally one of the important criteria to be met in most antibiotic drug discovery campaigns, even though a good argument can be made that such agents promote resistance, and are associated with undesirable side effects, such as antibiotic-associated colitis, due to their indiscriminate effect on the patient's microbiome.
Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Shuster in their addresses called for replacing the cuts with a more targeted plan to avoid such indiscriminate effects, but the White House and Congressional Republicans have starkly different ideas about what such a plan should look like.
Banning the bomb International treaties exist to prohibit all other weapons of mass destruction (Chemical and Biological) as well as to outlaw other weapons with indiscriminate effects (anti-personnel landmines and cluster bombs).
"Weapons experts who analyzed images of the attack said the nature of the destruction indicated possible use of fuel-air explosives (also known as "vacuum bombs"), a type of weapon particularly prone to indiscriminate effects when used in the vicinity of civilians," said Amnesty.
The humanitarian medical group called on "all the parties in the conflict, and the Syrian government at this particular moment, to stop targeting civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and schools, and to stop using weapons with indiscriminate effects in urban areas, where civilians are paying the highest price".
UNICEF also address the threats that landmines and other weapons with indiscriminate effects – such as cluster munitions -- have on all the rights of children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Golding, operating the firing mechanism on the bridge of his ship, clearly saw the indiscriminate, devastating effect of the wall of fire and destruction that was unleashed as his myriad rockets erupted on beachheads and coastal villages.
Speaking to the United Nations Security Council yesterday, Secretary General Kofi Annan took off the diplomatic gloves, criticizing Israel and the Palestinians for what he called "horrifying carnage" in the Middle East and accusing both sides of violence that is "disproportionate in scale and indiscriminate in effect".
The move by Mitchell to reduce staff in absence of continued contracts is one of the more drastic examples to date of the sequester's indiscriminate ripple effects.
Explanations for this decline include global warming caused by the greenhouse effect, indiscriminate use of pesticides, reduction or extinction of plant species and other human-induced disturbances.
