The History of Landmines
The History of Landmines

Author: Mike Croll

Publisher: Leo Cooper Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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"While public interest in landmines is recent, their use and that of their non-explosive predecessors has a history which spans 2,500 years. Mike Croll explains the development, employment and reactions to these weapons from the concealed spikes of antiquity to the electronically-fused systems of today." "The History of Landmines takes the reader from ancient Rome to the colonial wars and from the American Civil War to the Gulf War explaining why increasing numbers of these devices have been used and how they have become more sophisticated. The genesis of the present humanitarian crisis is fully described along with the problems of clearing landmines today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

America's Buried History
America's Buried History

Author: Kenneth R. Rutherford

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781611214536

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"America's Buried History traces the development of landmines from their first use before the Civil War, to the early use of naval mines, through the establishment of the Confederacy's Army Torpedo Bureau, the world's first institution devoted to developing, producing, and fielding mines in warfare."--Provided by publisher,

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.

Landmines
Landmines

Author: Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)

Publisher: Human Rights Watch

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9781564321138

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Taming the Landmine
Taming the Landmine

Author: Peter Stiff

Publisher:

Published: 1986-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780947020040

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The development of the landmine as a tactical weapon, combined with the efforts made to combat its devastating effects, is followed in this title.

Landmines in the Path of the Believer
Landmines in the Path of the Believer

Author: Charles F. Stanley

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc

Published: 2008-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781400280315

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Dr. Stanley identifies seven destructive temptations and gives Christians the hope and skills they need to live an abundant and obedient life. He shows readers how to identify, avoid, or defuse landmines of pride, jealousy and envy, insecurity, compromise, unforgiveness, sexual sin, and laziness.

Stepping Into a Minefield
Stepping Into a Minefield

Author: Ian Mansfield

Publisher: Big Sky Publishing

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781925275520

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Ian Mansfield was serving in the Australian Army when he was selected to command a team of Australian combat engineers to go to Pakistan to train Afghan refugees in mine-clearance procedures. With millions of refugees expected to return to Afghanistan, the United Nations saw a humanitarian crisis looming and requested help from Western countries to tackle the landmine problem. In September 1991, Ian, along with his wife and two young children, left Australia on a one-year assignment ... and didn't return home for 20 years. This highly personal account recalls Ian's pioneering efforts to set up a civilian program in Afghanistan to clear landmines for humanitarian purposes, and then his decision to leave the Australian Army and join the United Nations. He continued to work in the mine-action sector, setting up programs in Laos and Bosnia, and then working at the policy level at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Stepping into a Minefield highlights the dangers and the tragedies involved in landmine clearance, but also reveals the great humanity, dedication and humor of the thousands of brave men and women clearing landmines today. It also outlines the political, cultural and security 'minefields' that Ian had to navigate along the way, which were often more difficult to deal with than the real minefields.

After the Guns Fall Silent
After the Guns Fall Silent

Author: Shawn Roberts

Publisher: Oxfam

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780855983376

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Years after peace treaties have been signed and military conflict is nominally over, anti-personnel mines continue to claim innocent lives. This text offers data showing that landmines victimize civilians in direct contravention of the Geneva convention and examines the impact landmines have on people, on their communities and on their outlook and view of life. The report, commissioned by the VVAF, examines the consequences of landmine use on post-conflict reconstruction and development, on refugee movement and resettlement and on the environment. It also investigates mine clearance and mine awareness and medical, rehabilitative and psychological costs. Using original research, the report uses case studies from countries including Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia. Scholarly and accurate analysis combines with people's own words and real personal stories to present a detailed evaluation of the effect of this most potent of weapons. This work is published by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and distributed in the UK and Ireland by Oxfam.

Alternatives for Landmine Detection
Alternatives for Landmine Detection

Author: Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780833033017

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At the rate that government and nongovernmental organizations are clearing existing landmines, it will take 450-500 years to rid the world of them. Concerned about the slow pace of demining, the Office of Science and Technology asked RAND to assess potential innovative technologies being explored and to project what funding would be required to foster the development of the more promising ones. The authors of this report suggest that the federal government undertake a research and development effort to develop a multisensor mine detection system over the next five to eight years.