100 Nations to Sign Cluster Bomb Ban
584 views · Published 4 December 2008 · 2:19 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · News & Politics
Representatives of some 100 countries have been meeting in Oslo, Norway to sign a treaty banning cluster bombs. Cluster bombs contain hundreds of smaller explosives; unexploded cluster bombs can remain deadly long after a conflict has ended. But as Leta Hong Fincher reports, the United States and some other world powers have refused to sign the treaty.
