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- Early end for UK landmines. // Professional Engineering;02/11/98, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p6
Reports that the United Kingdom is promising to destroy most of its stock of antipersonnel landmines by the year 2000. Reference to the date being five years earlier than anticipated; Plans of the army to retain 400 mines to train soldiers in disarmament; Request made to contractor to suggest...
- US and land-mine ban. O'Hanlon, Michael // Christian Science Monitor;6/4/98, Vol. 90 Issue 132, p11
Discusses possible military alternatives to antipersonnel land mines which could enable the United States to sign the international treaty banning land mines. The function that land mines perform and why alternatives are being sought; The superiority of forces and technology that the United...
- Land-mine sniffers. // Christian Science Monitor;6/5/97, Vol. 89 Issue 133, p20
Reports on the development of an artificial nose, which could offer protection to demolition specialists who assisted with the eradication of anti-personnel land mines (APLs) buried around the world. Number of specialists killed or injured for every 500 APLs removed.
- US must take lead to ban land mines. Carter, Jimmy // Christian Science Monitor;6/23/97, Vol. 89 Issue 145, p18
Focuses on efforts by many nations to ban anti-personnel land mines (APLs). Impact of APLs on children, women and agricultural lands; Statistics on APLs in 70 countries; Number of APLs planted daily.
- Advances in mine warfare: An overview. Schneck, William C.; Visser, Malcolm H. // Engineer;Apr93, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p2
Discusses the fatality of land mine threats and what combat engineers can do to counter it. Development of technological advances in land mines; Identification and description of technical characteristics of fielded threat mines; Creation of countermeasures; Guides for offsetting the...
- Advances in mine warfare: Antipersonnel mines. Schneck, William C.; Visser, Malcolm H. // Engineer;Aug93, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p26
Part II. Addresses the antipersonnel (AP) mine threat and presents effective countermeasures. General types of AP mines; Fragmentation of AP mines; Countermeasures; Countermine do's and don'ts.
- DEADLY RELICS. Foek, Anton // Humanist;Jul/Aug96, Vol. 56 Issue 4, p15
Focuses on the global problem of land mines. Primary purpose of the land mines; Psychological effect of a land mine; Historical background of the weapons; International efforts to ban the production of land mines.
- Canada to destroy mines. Malcolm, Teresa // National Catholic Reporter;10/18/96, Vol. 32 Issue 44, p8
Reports on the announcement made by the federal government of Canada to destroy the country's stockpile of 90,000 antipersonnel land mines. Significance of the government's decision.
- America faces moral duty on de-mining. Drinan, Robert F. // National Catholic Reporter;12/19/97, Vol. 34 Issue 8, p22
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