Here's what to know about the weapons.
Cluster munitions scatter unguided submunitions, or bomblets, as small as 20 kilograms over a large area, maybe the size of several football fields. The U.S. last used them during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
A U.S. defense official told lawmakers last month they believed such weapons "would be useful" for Ukraine, "especially against dug-in Russian positions on the battlefield." They contrasted that figure with the failure rate of the cluster munitions being used by Russia against Ukraine, which they said is somewhere between 30 to 40%.
"They can injure or kill people who are just going about their daily lives -- children playing in playgrounds, people tending to their land," Weir told ABC News.
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