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Police have charged a man with throwing a homemade bomb into a protest crowd. It’s the alleged result of an increasingly complicated style of terrorism.
Russia is putting wings and guidance systems on old ‘iron bombs’ and using them to pound Ukraine’s cities.
For all its praise, the film furthers the dominant narrative of the bombs as a morally fraught but necessary project, with American anxieties playing a starring role.
Ideally, Russia would withdraw from Ukraine peacefully. Absent this, cluster munitions represent an effective way for Ukraine to defeat Russia’s invasion.
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Professor of History, Michigan State University
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Reader in Military History and Intelligence Studies in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Political Studies, Mount Allison University
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University