In August 2026, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki mark 81 years. Eighty-one years later, we still face the possibility that nuclear weapons could be used again. Eighty-one years later, survivors continue to live with the physical and psychological consequences of radiation exposure. Eighty-one years later, existing nuclear arsenals are far more powerful and destructive than the bombs dropped in 1945, and the humanitarian consequences of any future nuclear detonati

Throughout 2025, civilians in dozens of countries continued to suffer the devastating impacts of the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. The Explosive Weapons Monitor 2025, produced by the International Network on Explosive Weapons (INEW) using data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and Insecurity Insight, provides a global overview of this phenomenon and its humanitarian consequences.