A single cluster bomb scatters thousands of lethal fragments
While a standard bomb targets a single point, these statistical weapons turn a square kilometer of land into a deadly grid of two thousand flying steel shards.
A single North Korean KN-23 missile can carry hundreds of submunitions that saturate the ground using a mathematical principle called Poisson distribution. Instead of trying to hit a specific target, the weapon ensures a ninety-five percent chance of lethality within a four-hundred-meter radius by sheer volume. Each small canister releases fragments traveling at 1,200 meters per second—nearly four times the speed of sound—shredding everything in its path.
There's more to this story — open the app to keep reading.
Continue Reading in App
1 more paragraphs · plus a 2-question quiz