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Kaine said he had "some real qualms" about the U.S. decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine because it could inspire other countries to sidestep an international convention barring the munitions.

The Biden administration announced Friday that a new weapons package for Ukraine will include cluster bombs — a controversial type of weapon the U.S. has not provided to the country before.

US President Joe Biden listens as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez gives remarks to reporters before a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office on May 12, 2023. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty ...

or cluster bombs, deadly armaments that have been banned by more than 120 nations for putting civilians at risk. Ukraine has sought cluster bombs to use against invading Russian forces.

The United States is providing Ukraine with cluster bombs it says have a failure rate of 2.35%. But past use suggests "failure rates of 10% to 30%," according to a report prepared for Congress.

There are two features that make cluster bombs particularly dangerous in a way that extends far beyond their use on the battlefield. First, a relatively large proportion of the bomblets fail to ...

A Ukrainian military member holds a defused cluster bomb that did not explode on impact on Oct. 21 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters) In our years in Vietnam and Laos five decades ago ...