TY - JOUR
AU - Breitegger, Alexander
AB - Documentation An Analytical History of Austrian National Efforts to Ban Cluster Munitions Alexander Breitegger I. Background The use of cluster munitions in armed confl ict has caused civilian suffering for more than 60 years. These conventional weapons consist fi rstly of a delivery system which can be artillery rockets, shells fi red from mortars or howitzers, air-dropped bombs or dispensers affi xed to an aircraft. Secondly, this delivery system in turn encompasses often hundreds of explosive conventional sub-munitions. Once the rockets, shells or bombs have been launched, fi red or dropped they open up at a certain height and release the explosive sub-munitions which are intended to detonate over a wide area prior to, on or after impact on the ground or a target. Dispensers differ from the other delivery systems in that they are affi xed to an aircraft and release the explosive sub-munitions directly from there rather than being launched, fi red or dropped and then opening up. Developed to attack targets in open, uninhabited areas like airfi elds, military bases, ammunition storage houses or fast-moving dispersed targets like soldiers or tanks, since their fi rst widespread use in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, 
TI - An Analytical History of Austrian National Efforts to Ban Cluster Munitions
JF - Austrian Review of International and European Law Online
DO - 10.1163/15736512-90000019
DA - 2007-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/an-analytical-history-of-austrian-national-efforts-to-ban-cluster-brmIiPRcli
SP - 131
EP - 182
VL - 12
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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