Plus, it is also working towards holding countries accountable for their acts of aggression against civilians. A top UN official said that its envoys are trying hard to broker a ceasefire with the Russian government and Syrian regime. Today, 57 years after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Similarly, Russia is rebutting the "war crime" accusation saying "extremist groups in eastern Aleppo were holding its population hostage." The 15 million GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator weighs in at about 30,000 pounds, six times the heft of the existing GBU-28 bunker busters and nearly five tons heavier than the 22,600-pound GBU. There is good reason for the United States to support the NPT and promote its objectives. In case of Gaza, Israel said that it intended to hit Hamas leader Mohammed Deif but ended up killing his wife and their child. Known as bunker busters, these bombs penetrate deep into the earth or right through a dozen feet of reinforced concrete before exploding. In the case of Amiririyah, the US authorities said the civilian shelter was Saddam Hussain's communications centre in disguise. The states accused of killing civilians with such bombs come up with one common line of defence - that their enemies use civilians as human shields. How do countries get away with bunker busters? It air dropped bunker busting bombs in dense urban neighbourhoods, destroying several dozen apartment buildings and killing a middle-aged woman and her newly born child. The Penetrator Bomb (NEB), which is developed by TUBITAK-SAGE and Turkeys first bunker buster ammunition, have been used for a long time by the F-16. Israel also unleashed similar violence in Palestine's Gaza Strip in 2014. a bomb that goes deep into the ground or rock and explodes underground. American officials said that they were using the weapon to hit underground command centres of the Iraqi army and bring the war to a quick end.īut a year later, Human Rights Watch contested that claim, saying the bombings "resulted in dozens of civilian casualties that the US could have prevented if it had taken additional precautions." Who else has used bunker busters, and why?Īt the height of Gulf War I, US fighter jets struck an underground shelter for civilians in Iraq's Amririyah city, killing 400 people.Ī decade later, the US again invaded Iraq and its bomber jets heavily pounded Baghdad with bunker busters. The clip, shot with an unusually high video fidelity. The Geneva Conventions spell out that heavy duty bombs like bunker busters could only be used in "extreme circumstance of self-defence." Dropping them in civilian neighbourhoods is strictly prohibited and perceived as inhumane. Last week, the US Air Force posted a two-minute long video of the B-2 dropping GBU-57A/B bunker buster bombs from a past training event. When and where can you use them in a war?
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