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There is no legal reason the US shouldn't supply cluster bombs to Ukraine – but that doesn't make it morally right

  • Written by Robert Goldman, Professor of Law, American University
There is no legal reason the US shouldn't supply cluster bombs to Ukraine – but that doesn't make it morally rightThe remains of a rocket that carried cluster munitions found in a Ukrainian field.Alice Martins/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Pressure on the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with cluster bombs has refocused attention on the legal and moral use of such weaponry.

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