Sentences with word «bomblets»

«George Osborne said it would be a hard road; what he didn't say was that he had planted lots of bomblets all the way along it,» one minister said yesterday.

Cluster bombs pose particular risks to civilians because they release many small bomblets over a wide area

During the last decade Britain's use of cluster bombs, which release and scatter small bomblets over a large area, has been surpassed by only two other countries around the world.

Children often mistake the unexploded bomblets for toys and thousands have sustained horrific injuries when they are picked up and detonate.

Cluster munitions (prohibitions) bill The purpose of the bill is to create prohibitions on the sue, production and transfer of cluster munitions and implement the UK's international obligations under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) Definition of cluster munitions and relevant explosive bomblets Establishes offences in relation to these prohibited munitions Powers to enter and search premises for prohibited munitions, powers to remove and destroy prohibited munitions

A smart weapon being developed by the US would feature bomblets that could pursue targets for kilometres — but how good will they be at telling friend from foe?

Everyday, children and adults wander into the countryside to find metal, like bomblets and weapons from the second Indochina war, to sell as scrap metal or souvenirs to tourists, or to turn into useful objects, only if they don't explode beforehand.

It was estimated that something like 100 000 unexploded bomblets remain on the ground in Lebanon.

Little bomblets, here and there.

In May, Washington suspended sales to Riyadh of cluster munitions, which release dozens of bomblets and are considered particularly dangerous to civilians.

Steve Goose, director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch said «Syria is expanding its relentless use of cluster munitions, a banned weapon, and civilians are paying the price with their lives and limbs», «The initial toll is only the beginning because cluster munitions often leave unexploded bomblets that kill and maim long afterward.»

They can carry either 166 bomblets, a 1,000 - pound conventional warhead, or the W80 nuclear warhead with a 5 - 150 kt yield.

The move is a major victory for arms - trade campaigners who have long called for a ban on the weapons, the «bomblets» of which often land unexploded and turn into de-facto landmines.

Cluster bombs distribute small bomblets over a large area and are criticised by humanitarian campaigners because many of the bomblets fail to explode.

Campaigners oppose their use because many of the bomblets often only explode when they are picked up by curious children.

I won't give away all the goods on how the show proceeds but here's the gist of it: Thousand Of Seed - Containing Bomblets Dropped to Reforest Mangrove Forest Since it's too labor intensive and too slow to reforest large areas of land by hand, foot, shovel and trowel, why not try to use aircraft to drop thousands of small bomblets containing a tree seed (in the experiment in the show, mangrove seeds) and some soil over deforested areas?