Cluster bombs
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003051
- info:lc/authorities/sh2003003051
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2003003051#concept
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Variants
- Bombies (Cluster bombs)
- Cluster bomblets
- Cluster munitions
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Sources
- found: American Heritage dict.
- found: Encarta World English dict.
- found: Random House dict.
- found: Cave, Rosy. Cluster munitions in Albania and Lao PDR, 2006:t.p. (cluster munitions)
- found: Wikipedia, Jan. 15, 2008:Cluster bomb page ("Cluster munitions or cluster bombs are air-dropped or ground-launched munitions that eject a number of smaller submunitions ('bomblets')")
- found: OCLC, Jan. 15, 2008(Bombies [videorecording]; cluster bombs, "bombies")
- found: Bombies Web site, viewed Jan 15, 2008:the story page ("a newly developed weapon called a "cluster bomb" ... dubbed "bombies" by Laotian villagers")
- found: United Nations Bibliographic Information System Thesaurus, Jan. 15, 2008(cluster munitions; used for cluster bomblets, cluster bombs; related terms, fragmentation weapons, material remnants of war)
- found: American Heritage dictionary of the English language. 4th ed. 2000. Bartelby.com Website viewed Jan. 15, 2008(cluster bomb; a projectile that, when dropped from an aircraft or fired through the air, releases explosive fragments over a wide area; bomblet; one of a number of small bombs usually contained in a cluster bomb and released in midair)
LC Classification
- UG1282.C45
Change Notes
- 2003-03-20: new
- 2008-02-14: revised
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