Sentences with phrase «cluster bomb»

Former Canadian arms negotiator objects to controversial clause in Ottawa's cluster bomb bill, The National Post

The «cluster bomb» focuses on the population plight of a cluster of poor countries that struggle with rapid population growth and increasing hunger, without looking at the role of rich countries in worsening that plight.

Sometimes we hear reference to a «cluster bomb» of growth rather than a «population bomb.»

The reality that's played out, it's more like a cluster bomb, in the sense that there are little pockets of both high fertility and urbanization,» with more localized vulnerabilities to natural disasters and other crises.

John P. A. Ioannidis dropped another cluster bomb on the medical research world two weeks ago with his latest paper which concludes:

And it's doing so just as the human «population cluster bomb» is creating high densities of people in many of those same places and the growth of the global middle class is amplifying appetites.

For a fresh look at what I described in 2008 as the «population cluster bomb,» read the new Demographic Vulnerability Report from the Population Institute.

[ANDY REVKIN comments: I started off the blog with a discussion of the «population cluster bomb» — the growing imbalance between countries with exploding populations and others with the opposite trend.

Yes, it has fallen in some countries, but doesn't immigration partially undo the cluster bomb effect?

I was aware of the prediction of a population explosion, but the «cluster bomb» scenario detailed above is new to me.

-- and what I called the «Population Cluster Bomb» in an early Dot Earth post.

One ship has rapid fire on one side and a power shot on the other, whilst another is all delayed lock - ons, with one being single and the other being a cluster bomb that will take out anything thrown your way.

But you're not interested in escaping the conflict entirely, as you want to return and make them pay; you pick up some more missiles and a cluster bomb.

You come swooping in and drop your cluster bomb, killing the guy with the RPG and blowing up the jeep.

When it comes to Rocket Launchers, Bungie is improving the Cluster Bomb perk while slightly decreasing the effectiveness of Grenades and Horseshoes.

A new method, which makes use of innovative nanoparticles, could change that, providing a less harmful «cluster bomb» approach to delivery.

«This is just the latest in a series of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, notwithstanding their use on more than 50 occasions of chlorine bombs and cluster bombs and other types of weapons that are intended to maim and kill in the most horrific ways.

If I played the same game as you and took the number of Muslims killed by American ammunition, bombs, cluster bombs, missiles, sanctions, depleted uranium, etc., etc. and divided that into numbered points featuring the victims in groups of 50, 60, or 100, I'd be giving you a MUCH longer list of Muslim victims of America than the list of victims of Islamic terrorism that you provided to us here.

Europeans killed Native Americans, Native Australians, caused ww1, ww2 (killed their own kind like no other), killed Mayans, killed Jews (holocaust), killed about every race on earth, slavery, bombed vietnam, laos, cambodia, multiple south American nations, African Nations, kill millions in Iraq, Afghanistan with carpet bombing, cluster bombing, napalm, drone bombing and Im not going to go to colonialism for centuries.

William, In the words of david berlinski: «Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?

We should encourage the UN to begin outlawing weapons like land mines, cluster bombs, and depleted - uranium ammunition that play particularly long - term havoc with civilian populations.

Highlighting the ban on cluster bombs, he argued the case for outlawing nuclear arsenals was even more compelling.

«We have decided, after a great deal of discussion, that we can help break the log jam so that we can get international agreement that would ban cluster bombs,» Mr Brown said in comments reported by the Press Association.

caste your mind backs, we bombed the Bosnian serbs and the Serbia itself which killed over 3028 innocent men, women and children with cluster bombs etc all in the name of preventing genocide in the Bosnian and Kosovo civil wars, are the same people who supported the illegal bombing of the Bosnian Serbian forces and Serbia itself against the bombing of fascist, genocidal isis, with the exception of George Galloway and tony benn I think you are, maybe I am wrong, am i.

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

The villagers tell me they've put the cluster bombs they've managed to find at the bottom of an empty well.

Cables suggest UK officials made a deal with America to allow the US to maintain stockpiles of cluster bombs on British soil.

The MoD said the UK government was determined to address the humanitarian impact of cluster bombs and that its «ultimate goal» was to produce a new legally binding instrument on the issue.

His comments come as Amnesty International publishes the results of a YouGov poll showing UK popular opinion has turned against cluster bombs.

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.

Gordon Brown reversed years of military policy by announcing the UK is to ban the use of cluster bombs.

«Evidence from recent conflicts has shown that cluster bombs are inherently unreliable, inaccurate and have no place in modern warfare,» Amnesty's international arms programme director Oliver Sprague said.

The international development secretary has called for the British and US military to stop using cluster bombs, according to a leaked letter.

Cluster bombs, which can either be dropped by planes or launched as artillery, are scattered over a large area but frequently fail to detonate, resulting in a serious hazard for civilians once conflicts have resolved.

Cluster bombs have been used since the beginning of the Iraq war and were employed by the Israeli army in Lebanon during the conflict with Hizbullah this summer.

The MoD wants exemptions from the ban for certain types of cluster bombs and is allegedly calling for changes to the treaty which would allow them to continue to be used by the US.

In a statement to MPs, Mr Fallon said the UK had not supplied any cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia since 1989.

Cluster bombs made in the UK have been used in the conflict in Yemen, the government has confirmed.

But he added that Saudi investigations had concluded that some UK - made cluster bombs had been dropped.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon warned at the time that the use of cluster bombs could amount to a war crime.

Earlier the Saudi state news agency reported a coalition spokesman saying cluster bombs were only used against «legitimate military targets».

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

The Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits all use, stockpiling, production and transfer of cluster bombs

Chris Bryant asks what the UK is doing to stop the Americans using cluster bombs.

Many nations including but not limited to Syria, the United States, Russia, China, Israel and India are not parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions and do not recognize the ban on the use of cluster bombs.

[259] Russia denied using cluster bombs.

Georgia was reported to have used cluster munitions twice to hit civilians fleeing via the main escape road and admitted using cluster bombs against Russian troops and near the Roki Tunnel.

Ole, engaged to Anna, remains resilient with sounds of cluster bombs outside of a Syrian apartment, but serenades his bride - to - be with a piano tune inside their Paris apartment.

Attractive and dedicated, Ms. Neistat and Mr. Solvang calmly endure a hairy 2013 border crossing into Syria, dodge cluster bombs and interview distraught survivors.

Kulve Taroth is covered in armor for much of the fight with very few weak points, but it seems explosions from Barrel Bombs, Sticky Ammo, Cluster Bombs, and even the Gunlance's explosions, ignore that armor and do extra damage.