The request for M-26 artillery rockets, which are fired in barrages and carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area, is likely to be approved shortly, along with other arms, a senior official said.
Here, abstracted leaves of grass, cascading stalks, tulip-like bomblets, all flipping from positive to negative, colour to black and white, slew across the wall.
A: One thing to look for is debris left from the bombing, says Philip Coyle, a weapons expert and former White House national security official in the Obama administration who is now at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C. Sarin might be delivered in bomblets like those in this Wikipedia image, he says.
Cluster munitions scatter unexploded bomblets like buckshot across a swath of land the size of a city block.
Cluster bomblets like those disposed of that day account for 71percentt of the 25,531 UXO items HALO Trust has cleared so far and have caused no less than one-third of Laos's 826 causalities since 2008.
Cluster bombs are canisters that separate in mid-air, scattering dozens if not hundreds of "bomblets," which sometimes fail to detonate upon landing, leaving live munitions that look like toys on the ground.
HRW reckons the number of bomblets runs into the billions.
There was a small explosion in the air, perhaps 20 or 30 metres above us, as the canister splintered and the shower of bomblets announced themselves with an individual billow of white smoke, pushing gracefully out in all directions and hanging in the air for a moment like some vapoury spider before beginning their descent.
In towns like Yahmour and Nabatiye along the Litani River Valley, where Israeli troops prepared to face off with Hezbollah fighters in the final days of the conflict, thousands of bomblets released by shells fired into the area litter everything from streets to farmland.
Weapons analysts point out that bomblets have maimed and killed civilians who have found them.
They also detonated a large number of "bomblets" from American cluster bombs.
