Counting cluster bombs as single weapons conceals their true dispersal scale

Evidence

However, to tally cluster bombs the way we tally landmines amounts to false accounting. A cluster bomb only remains a single weapon for a few seconds after it is dispatched, until its canister bursts open to deliver (depending on the model) scores or hundreds of bomblets. Each bomblet, in turn, explodes (on impact or when touched) to release a hail of sharp metal shards that can kill or injure people up to 150 yards away. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 674

Categorization

• XREF: This is the numeric accounting inversion the reader needs: how ‘false accounting’ renders dispersed harm illegible, paralleling Soundscape’s uncounted noise casualties and slow violence’s miscounted war dead. — connects to: Cluster bombs effectively disperses millions of lethal fragments across war zones — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 678; Dud cluster bomblets become de facto landmines that wreck civilian life — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 683; Cluster bombs are landmines under a cover pseudonym. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 703 (+1 more)
• SEED: The unit-of-accounting move (how the same object counted at different scales makes harm vanish) is an essay-ready framework for uncounted extraction and pollution harms.

Broader Connections

• Cluster bombs effectively disperses millions of lethal fragments across war zones #expands (0.92) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 678
• Cluster bombs are landmines under a cover pseudonym. #corroborates (0.90) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 703
• Dud cluster bomblets become de facto landmines that wreck civilian life #expands (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 683
• Landmines were stigmatized while equally lethal cluster bombs escaped scrutiny as smart weapons #corroborates (0.82) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 666