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These Cluster Bombs Started Killing Civilians Before They Left U.S. Soil (Published 2019) - The New York Times
In 1989, a BLU-97 cluster-munition bomblet exploded in a Kansas factory, killing two workers. Their fates were soon shared by American service members in the Persian Gulf War.
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America’s Dark History of Killing Its Own Troops With Cluster Munitions (Published 2019) - The New York Times
No matter the BLU-97’s blemished record, until the Gates memo the bomblet’s place had been secure and its flaws evidently overlooked or forgiven by American military leadership.