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Spending Bill Moves US Toward Cluster Ban

HeadlineMar 13, 2009

The spending bill also includes a provision that will move the US toward a ban on cluster bombs. Under new rules, US military weapons must now have a self-destruct failure rate of less than one percent, a standard few cluster bombs can achieve.

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