{"id":45698,"date":"2023-07-07T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T23:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=45698"},"modified":"2023-07-07T23:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T23:46:32","slug":"current-events-cluster-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/current-events-cluster-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Current events: cluster bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about current events, with a side of history: the tutor mentions cluster bombs.<\/h2>\n<p>\nCluster bombs are in the news again: apparently the US suggests it will deliver some to the Ukraine for use against the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\nA cluster bomb, apparently, contains many smaller bombs that eject from it and explode independently, covering a wide area with anti-personnel shrapnel. It&#8217;s a controversial type of munition because of its potential to cause collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p>\nDecades ago I read about a police raid on a gang in some city in the US. Among the arms seized was a cluster bomb. Numerous of the police had never seen one, and were very surprised and curious about how a gang had managed to possess one.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/world\/the-us-will-provide-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine-and-defends-the-delivery-of-the-controversial-weapon\/ar-AA1dyABK?ocid=entnewsntp&#038;cvid=93c81ddb6178463baf95d08aa7dba511&#038;ei=18\">Canadian Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopclustermunitions.org\/en-gb\/cluster-bombs\/what-is-a-cluster-bomb.aspx\">stopclustermunitions.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about current events, with a side of history: the tutor mentions cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are in the news again: apparently the US suggests it will deliver some to the Ukraine for use against the invasion. A cluster bomb, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/current-events-cluster-bombs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Current events: cluster bombs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45700,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45698\/revisions\/45700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}