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I thought they were illegal under international law. Looks like they aren't. Maybe I'm thinking of cluster mines. The benefit better outweigh the cost. That's a tricky equation.
The article said that 100 countries have signed a treaty to ban them but the US is not one of those countries. This CBC article talks a bit about why countries have banned them. It's a bomb that sprays smaller bombs randomly over a large area. The main issue is these smaller bombs might not detonate on impact and will only explode later on once the war is long over with.
Yeah, they are a similar post war problem as landmines which also have a treaty that the US has not signed.
It's interesting to look at the map of signatories.
Canada, Europe, Japan, and most of Latin America and Africa are signatories, while almost the whole of the Middle East and Eurasia + Brazil, Russia, India, China are not.