Update: 33 senators needed to support a ban on cluster bombs.

Why Ban Cluster Bombs?

“You’d ban them for sure, if you had them here.”
~ Soraj Ghulam Habib, 17, who lost both legs after picking up a cluster submunition in a park in Herat, Afghanistan when he was ten.

Watch this video and imagine if we had landmines and cluster submunitions littering our parks and soccer fields.

You’d demand a ban on these weapons, for sure.


Urge President Obama to Ban Cluster Bombs

When 95 nations were signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo, Norway in December, the Obama Transition Team promised that the next president would “carefully review the new treaty.” Now that Obama has taken office, leaders of 67 national groups are calling for the President to take a fresh look at this treaty—as well as the global ban on landmines. You can help, too! Urge President Obama to ban cluster bombs and landmines.

Cluster bomb survivors are seek a meeting with President Obama, and urging him to complete a balanced treaty review. Read the letter (PDF).

U.S. Cluster Bombs Kill Civilians and U.S. Soldiers

In the past decade, the United States has used cluster bombs in civilian-populated areas of the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Cluster bombs pose a danger to civilians during and after conflict, since malfunctioning bomblets scatter over a wide area and leave behind minefields. During the 1991 Gulf War, U.S.- dropped cluster submunitions were the single most deadly weapon encountered by U.S. troops.

Take Action

Urge your senators and representative to ban cluster bombs

Stay Informed

See a list of countries that signed the treaty.

Ban land mines and cluster bombs (Boston Globe, 04/13/2009)

See what else the press is saying about cluster bombs.

Check out the tour blog and media coverage of the tour.