Talk:Area denial weapons
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Governmental institutions do not spend enormous quantities of money to design, implement, and test weapons all for the purpose of not using them. We did not accidentally make nuclear and chemical weapons. They are, by conscious design, area denial weapons and in that sense absolutely in context. 12.217.192.63 22:34, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Cluster bombs, whether dropped from aircraft or fired from large-calibre artillery, must be considered as area denial weapons. The way the bomblets are dispersed, the mixes of ant-personnel and anti-vehicle bomblets, the time-delay feature for detonation over a period, and the number of unexploded bomblets, all put these weapons into the area denial category. The use of these weapons in urban areas surely puts them into the same category as scattered anti-personnel mines.
