Definition of "cluster bomb" [cluster bomb]

• A projectile that, when dropped from an aircraft or fired through the air, releases explosive fragments over a wide area. (noun)

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• "Toward the end I bring up the just-verified cluster bomb issue: What’s shocking and I would say to me, completely immoral, is that ninety percent of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last seventy-two hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution, when we really knew there would be an end to this."