Friend,

Cluster bombs are uniquely evil weapons.

These munitions scatter many smaller bombs over large areas, significantly amplifying the likelihood they kill or maim civilians. Cluster bombs continue to pose a threat post-conflict because they leave behind small, unexploded bombs that effectively become landmines, threatening civilians for decades and decades.1

124 countries have already signed on a treaty that prohibits the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs. But the United States is not one of those countries. This year has seen a renewed push in Congress to finally ban cluster bombs, and we need a groundswell of grassroots supporters behind this important fight.2

Sign the petition: The United States must ban the sale of cluster bombs!

The U.S. government has used cluster munitions with devastating consequences in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, the Persian Gulf in 1991, the former Yugoslavia in 1999, as well as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen since the turn of the century.3 The U.S. government recently supplied Ukraine with cluster bombs. Southeast Asian nations are still trying to clear these long-ago dropped munitions from civilian areas.4

As Representative Sarah Jacobs said, “Sending cluster munitions anywhere in the world makes the United States complicit in the unavoidable and inevitable civilian harm that follows.”2

The U.S. government should never use these weapons again and never sell them to other countries. It’s time to end the use and sale of cluster bombs.

Add your name: No more cluster bombs! Tell Congress to ban the sale of these weapons NOW.

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the team at Demand Progress

Sources:

  1. Human Rights Watch, “Cluster Munitions,” 2014.
  2. The Intercept, “REPUBLICAN DISARRAY DELAYS HOUSE VOTE TO BAN CLUSTER BOMB TRANSFERS,” September 14, 2023.
  3. Al Jazeera, “Timeline: Use of controversial cluster bombs in past conflicts,” July 10, 2023.
  4. Bloomberg, “Cluster Bomb Move Rebuked in Asian Nations Who Were Its Victims,” July 10, 2023.

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