The US recently signed a $210M deal to buy cluster munitions. More than 100 states have ratified a treaty to ban them.

A coalition of human rights organizations, anti-war groups, and Christian churches are urging the U.S. to cancel its $210 million purchase of next-generation cluster munitions from an Israeli state-owned company, citing the “severe, foreseeable dangers” these weapons pose to civilians. In an open letter shared exclusively with RS, the organizations write that cluster munitions “disperse…

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