根据集束弹药联盟周二发布的年度报告，2022年集束炸弹造成的伤亡人数是自2008年以来的最多的，2008年是世界上大多数地区禁止集束炸弹的一年。

Cluster bombs are large bombs that contain dozens or even hundreds of smaller bombs, or “bomblets.” Cluster bombs are designed to scatter the bomblets over a wide area upon detonation. At a time when ...

Cluster bombs, which fall in large numbers close together, creating a carpet of apparently indiscriminate destruction, have been controversial for decades. In 2008, ...

Cluster munitions—or “cluster bombs”—are a type of rocket, bomb or missile that releases tens or hundreds of smaller, explosive submunitions when fired, ...

A cluster bomb capsule is seen on the ground amid the Russia-Ukraine war in Avdiivka, Ukraine, on March 23, 2023. Getty Images Cluster bombs can be dropped from the air or ...

Cluster Munition Monitor, a report, says that more than 95% of people (whose status was recorded) killed and wounded by these bombs in 2022 were civilians. Children made up 71% of casualties.

It was partly Israel’s use of cluster bombs in the 2006 Lebanon war that pushed states to draft the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), banning the use, transfer, production, and ...

The Dane County Bomb Squad was dispatched to the scene and collected the explosive device, identified by police as a “cluster bomblet,” to be safely destroyed, authorities said.

Cluster Bombs. The Trump Administration Just Re-Introduced a Controversial Weapon Back into the US Arsenal. Cluster bombs are back in the U.S. military arsenal. A Department of Defense memo released ...

Cluster bombs have been banned by more than 120 countries, with many allies and humanitarian groups also opposing the use of the bomb. The weapon does not violate international law when used on ...