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Examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the US target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. The text emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively.

Land mines. --- Mines (Military explosives). --- Land mines --- Mines (Military explosives) --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Engineering --- Mine planting --- Mines, Military --- Landmines --- Explosives, Military

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Every day, civilians in dozens of countries around the world are injured and killed by landmines and other lethal leftovers of conflict, years after hostilities of war have ended. Once planted, a mine will never be able to tell the difference between a military and civilian footstep, and a bomblet will continue to attract children and metal dealers. In order to put an end to the suffering and casualties caused by antipersonnel mines, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (the Ottawa Convention or Mine Ban Treaty), was adopted in 1997. Further, in order to prevent suffering and casualties caused by cluster munitions at the time of their use, the Convention on the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Cluster Munitions (the Oslo Convention), was adopted in 2008. In 1996, the Royal Military Academy (RMA) opted for the implementation of mine action technological projects funded by the Belgian Ministry of Defense and the Belgian State Secretariat for Development Cooperation. It further decided to set up a close collaboration with other Belgian universities, which started organizing their own research activities on mine action. Later, other funding sources were granted to RMA by the Belgian Science Policy, the European Commission, and the European Committee for Standardization. At a more politico-administrative level, RMA participates in the States Parties Meetings of the Mine Ban Treaty, and in this context, Prof. Acheroy created an expert group on mine action technologies with representatives of different organizations and countries, aiming at informing the States Parties of the Mine Ban Treaty about the evolution of the mine action technologies. Further, Prof. Y. Baudoin created working groups dedicated to robotics in mine action within international organization. This book reports research activities achieved by the RMA.

Land mines. --- Landmines --- Mines (Military explosives) --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Military Science --- Technology --- Remote Sensing

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"Thousands of people around the world are maimed and killed by landmines and unexploded ammunition every year. International law classifies landmines as 'evil in themselves', but minefields are expressions of 'political minefields' that create them and allow them to persist. In this travelogue through Iraq, Laos, Cambodia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan and New York City, we follow Matthew Bolton's quest for solutions to the landmine crisis and emerging autonomous weapons. Throughout his journey we meet deminers, paramilitaries, journalists, mercenaries, diplomats, aid workers, and campaigners working in and around the minefields. It is a must-read for those working to alleviate the devastation of war."--

Military robots --- Land mines (International law) --- Mines (Military explosives) --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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Environmental information is important for successful planning and execution of naval operations. To ensure that naval forces have the most up-to-date capacities, ONR has extensive environmental research program. To increase research community understanding of the operational demands placed on naval operations and to facilitate discover between these two groups, the NRC's Ocean Studies Board, working with ONR, convened fire previous symposiums on tactical oceanography. The sixth and latest symposium in this series was held February 1999 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Military oceanography -- United States. --- Mines (Military explosives). --- Submarine mines -- United States. --- Submarine mines --- Mines (Military explosives) --- Military oceanography --- Mine planting --- Mines, Military --- Mines, Submarine --- Naval mines --- Sea mines --- Underwater mines --- Military geophysics --- Naval art and science --- Oceanography --- Explosives, Military --- Submarine Mines --- Mines (Military Explosives) --- Naval Art And Science --- Technology & Engineering --- History

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Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Engineering --- Land mines --- Ammunition. --- Bombs. --- Safety measures. --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Aerial bombs --- Landmines --- Ammunition --- Projectiles, Aerial --- Bombings --- Explosives --- Gunnery --- Projectiles --- Mines (Military explosives) --- Polemology --- Safety measures --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Bombs