Cluster bombs, Lockheed remains on Nummus' black list

This has been going on since early 2025. On the one hand, there is the Trentino consultancy firm, Nummus, which has published a black list where it has included companies (about twenty) that produce, sell, transport anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs.

On the other is perhaps the best known, at least in the US and Europe, of these companies, the American Lockheed-Martin, which has asked to be taken off the list.

'The last email from Lockheed Martin arrived on 31 March,' explains Claudio Kofler, managing director of Nummus. 'They asked us again to be taken off the exclusion list that we update every month. Unfortunately, the answers did not satisfy us. We then asked them to somehow certify what they claim. We now await their further reply.

Kofler recalls that Nummus was contacted by the American company after the publication of the black list that caused so much discussion in Italy. 'Specifically at Lockheed,' adds Kofler, 'we contested a series of issues concerning cluster bombs banned by the Oslo Convention. We also had a call with them in which we discussed the Italian legislation that prohibits the direct and indirect financing of companies active in the field of anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs'.

As Plus24 readers know, we have dealt with the subject on several occasions. On 8 March, in the 'Mined Wallets' investigation, we explored a number of doubts and questions that readers themselves had raised through emails to plus@ilsole24ore.com. At the centre of the debate is precisely Law 220 of 2021 and its funding bans.