Anti-personnel Weapons
Anti-personnel Weapons

Author: Sipri

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-01-27

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1000261603

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This book, first published in 1978, analyses the development, uses and effects of conventional anti-personnel weapons such as rifles and machine guns, grenades, bombs, shells and mines. It provides the historical, military, technical and clinical background to the international legal discussions as part of the ongoing efforts to prohibit or restrict the uses of some of the more inhumane and indiscriminate of these weapons, the most successful being the 1997 Ottawa Treaty that banned the use of anti-personnel mines.

Anti-personnel Weapons
Anti-personnel Weapons

Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Publisher: London : Taylor and Francis

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13:

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Bogen beskriver udviklingen, brugen og virkningen af konventionelle anti-personel våben. En SIPRI publikation.

Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2001-04-21

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0309073499

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This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military's arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military's antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today's mines provide to the military.