Editing Cluster munition (section)

{{Short description|Explosive weapon with small submunitions}}
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[[File:Demonstration cluster bomb.jpg|thumb|US [[Honest John missile]] warhead cutaway around 1960, showing [[M134 bomblet|M134]] bomblets filled with [[Sarin]]]]
[[File:SA-2 site being blanketed by cluster bombs from F-105 Thud Wild Weasels.jpg|thumb|Half of a [[surface-to-air missile]] site in [[North Vietnam]] blanketed in exploding bomblets dispersed by a US cluster munition, [[Vietnam War]]]]
[[File:201206 포천승진 사격장 통합화력시범 훈련(15) (8019445723).jpg|thumb|A cluster bomb is dropped at the Nightmare Range in [[South Korea]]]]

A '''cluster munition''' is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched [[explosive weapon]] that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a '''cluster bomb''' that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles. Other cluster munitions are designed to destroy [[runway]]s or [[electric power transmission]] lines.

Because cluster bombs release many small bomblets over a wide area, they pose risks to [[civilians]] both during attacks and afterwards. [[Unexploded ordnance|Unexploded bomblets]] can kill or maim civilians and unintended targets long after a conflict has ended, and are costly to locate and remove. This failure rate ranges from 2 percent to over 40 percent.

Cluster munitions are prohibited for those nations that ratified the [[Convention on Cluster Munitions]], adopted in [[Dublin]], Ireland, in May 2008. The Convention entered into force and became binding [[international law]] upon ratifying states on 1 August 2010, six months after being ratified by 30 states.<ref name=Article17>{{cite web|url=http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/treatystatus/|title=Treaty status – The Treaty – CMC|website=www.stopclustermunitions.org|access-date=15 May 2018}}</ref> As of 10 February 2022, a total of 123 states have joined the Convention, as 110 states parties and 13 signatories.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 10, 2022 |title=Convention on Cluster Munition Website |url=https://www.clusterconvention.org |url-status=live |access-date=March 1, 2022 |website=The Convention on Cluster Munition |publication-place=Geneva (Switzerland)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612122749/http://www.clusterconvention.org:80/? |archive-date=2008-06-12 }}</ref>