President Joe Biden's decision to provide Ukraine with controversial cluster munitions has raised consternation among NATO allies, some of whom are among the more than a hundred countries who have prohibited them.
Cluster munitions are a specific type of munition that contains tens of submunitions within it that expand when it gets near the target, sending the submunitions over a much more expansive area. Between the wide range of the destruction cluster munitions create, and the frequent dud rate that leaves many unexploded, submunitions can be dangerous for civilians for years after its intended detonation.
The only NATO members not a part of the treaty are Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Turkey, and the United States. Neither Russia nor Ukraine is a part of it either. U.S. officials cited Russia's use of the weapons — which has a much higher dud rate than the ones the U.S. agreed to provide — in part because Ukraine will have to be de-mined anyway, due to Russia's use of the munitions.
The cluster munitions Russia has been using in Ukraine have a dud rate between 30-40%, according to Kahl, while the munitions the U.S. will provide them will have below a 2.35% dud rate.
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