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Books on: landmines detection

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Alternatives for Landmine Detection

Book by Jacqueline Macdonald, J. R. Lockwood, John Mcfee, Thomas Altshuler, Thomas Broach, Lawrence Carin, Russell Harmon, Carey Rappaport, Waymond Scott, Richard Weaver; Rand, 2003

Subjects:

Land Mines--Detection

Collections: Entire Library

Analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of new technologies in landmine detection and offers solutions for improving and speeding up the process.
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The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines: The Legal Contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Book by Louis Maresca, Stuart Maslen; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Arms Control, Land Mines, Land Mines (International Law), Mines (Military Explosives) (International Law)

Collections: Entire Library

The International Committee of the Red Cross has played a key role in the effort to ban anti-personnel landmines. This book provides an overview of the work of the ICRC concerning landmines from 1955 through 1999. It contains International Committee of the Red Cross position papers, working papers ...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has played a key role in the effort to ban anti-personnel landmines. This book provides an overview of the work of the ICRC concerning landmines from 1955 through 1999. It contains International Committee of the Red Cross position papers, working papers, and speeches made by its representatives to the international meetings convened to address the mines issue, including the 1995SH96 Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the diplomatic meeting that adopted the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines.
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Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis

Book by Kevin M. Cahill; Basic Books, 1995

Subjects:

Human Rights, Mines (Military Explosives) (International Law)

Collections: Entire Library

...export of land mines, and the Landmines Protocol applies only "imperfectly...longer necessary. By contrast, detection and demining technology has...extensive, more rapid, and safer detection and destruction of land mines...to put more teeth into the Landmines Protocol of the Conventional...
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Conversion Survey, 1997: Global Disarmament and Disposal of Surplus Weapons

Book by Herbert Wulf; Oxford University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Chemical Weapons Disposal, Disarmament--Economic Aspects, Economic Conversion, Explosive Ordnance Disposal

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This book updates information on key issues regarding the conversion of global resources from military to civilian use. It provides unique sets of data, such as an index of disarmament and figures on employment in the defense industry. The 1997 edition emphasizes the generation, scrapping ...
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This book updates information on key issues regarding the conversion of global resources from military to civilian use. It provides unique sets of data, such as an index of disarmament and figures on employment in the defense industry. The 1997 edition emphasizes the generation, scrapping, destruction, and transfer of weapon stocks which have been declared surplus because of arms control agreements, unilateral disarmament, or the end of armed conflicts. Analyses, empirical data, and policy discussions deal with heavy and light conventional arms, as well as chemical warfare agents and nuclear weapons.
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Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People

Book by Barry S. Levy, Victor W. Sidel; Oxford University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Disaster Medicine, Emergency Management, Emergency Medical Services, Health Planning, Public Health, Terrorism--Health Aspects, Terrorism--Prevention, Weapons Of Mass Destruction--Health Aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...promo- tion, disease prevention, early detection, and universal access-will not only...Livelihoods in Afghanistan, 140 Box 8-2 Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance in Afghanistan...possible. Syndromic Surveillance Timely detection of an intentional biological-agent release...

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Journal Articles on: landmines detection

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Anti-Personnel Landmines: A Modern Day Scourge

Journal article by Frank Faulkner; New Zealand International Review, Vol. 22, 1997

Subjects:

Mines, Military--International aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...takes two forms: economic, development-related assistance and mine-eradication programmes. The detection, removal and safe disposal of landmines is, by any known criteria, a difficult and dangerous undertaking. On average, one disposal expert...
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Organization of American States

Journal article by Marian Nash; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 88, 1994

Subjects:

International Relations--Periodicals

Collections: Entire Library

...is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape detection by X-rays. We are not aware of any significant current attempt...Protocol II contains a detailed set of restrictions on the use of landmines and booby-traps, including: (1) requirements concerning the...
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International Law - New Actors and New Technologies: Center Stage for NGOS

Journal article by John King Gamble, Charlotte Ku; Law and Policy in International Business, Vol. 31, 2000

Subjects:

Information technology--Influence, International law--Forecasts, Non-governmental organizations--Forecasts

Collections: Entire Library

...entail steps, ranging from detection of evidence that a violation...examining their role in the Landmines Convention and in the thwarting...Is the Experience of the Landmines Campaign Unique or is it a...much more prominent: The landmines campaign ... combined together...
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Security and Public Health

Journal article by Victor W. Dr. Sidel, Barry S. Dr. Levy; Social Justice, Vol. 29, 2002

Subjects:

Public health--International aspects, Public health--Political aspects, Security, International--Health aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...the United States on military force and landmines to protect the border between South Korea...with at least five other major issues: detection and control of emerging infectious diseases...including small arms and light weapons, landmines, chemical weapons, biological weapons...
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Prosecuting the "Fog of War?"(1) Examining the Legal Implications of an Alleged Massacre of South Korean Civilians by U.S. Forces during the Opening Days of the Korean War in the Village of No Gun Ri

Journal article by Christopher D. Booth; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 33, 2000

Subjects:

Korean War, 1950-1953--History, Military law--Litigation, War crimes--Litigation

Collections: Entire Library

...Nightline, Oct. 22, 1999, supra note 8. Sec. Caldera said, "North Koreans did use refugees both to push them out in front of landmines in order to test the ground, did infiltrate them and carry weapons, carry heavy guns in their oxcarts so that they could get...

Magazine Articles on: landmines detection

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The Most Pernicious Weapon: Landmines

Magazine article by Frank Faulkner; Contemporary Review, Vol. 270, March 1997

Subjects:

Mines, Military--Analysis, Ordnance--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...nuclear weapons. However, landmines pose a real and ongoing dilemma...mine-eradication programmes. The detection, removal and safe disposal...country crippled by uncleared landmines. To rid the country of its...severely compromised due to landmines. The registration of voters...
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Mine Weeders

Magazine article; Foreign Policy, May-June 2003

Collections: Entire Library

...International Campaign to Ban Landmines one of the most hackneyed...Alternatives for Landmine Detection." Land mines are perhaps...deminers may also have mine-detection dogs. Unfortunately, these...the Handheld Standoff Mine Detection System--in Afghanistan. Fast...
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Time to Sign the Mine Ban Treaty: The U.S.'S Stubborn Refusal to Accede to World Opinion No Longer Makes Sense and Is Further Dimming Its Leadership Status

Magazine article by Richard A. Matthew, Ted Gaulin; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 19, Spring 2003

Subjects:

United Nations--Laws, regulations, etc., United States--Military policy

Collections: Entire Library

...both located close to the DMZ. Under these circumstances, landmines are viewed as a deterrent to a North Korean invasion, as well...reconnaissance satellites, radar-imaging aircraft, and ground-based detection systems. This equipment would not only coordinate friendly...
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Will Every Rat Have Its Day? Can Wasps, Moths, Pigs, and Rats Be as Useful as Dogs in Detecting Dangerous Chemicals? Researchers Say Yes

Magazine article by Michael A. Gips; Security Management, Vol. 50, February 2006

Subjects:

Animals--Military aspects, Animals--Research, Hazardous substances, Insects--Military aspects, Insects--Research, Universities and colleges--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...many have shown high rates of detection, though perhaps not a readiness...Mozambique and other countries for landmines. Company officials say the...bees can be trained to detect landmines with a 97.5 percent accuracy...Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques of the National...
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Stemming the Lethal Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons

Magazine article by Michael T. Klare; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 12, Fall 1995

Subjects:

Arms smuggling--Prevention, Weapons systems--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...in retarding the trade in landmines. For example, the U.S. Senate...place more emphasis on the detection, interdiction, and prevention...body apart). Also, the ban on landmines and incendiary weapons should...reading Human Rights Watch, Landmines: A Deadly Legacy. New York...

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Newspaper Articles on: landmines detection

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Electronic 'Dog' Could Help Sniff out Abandoned Landmines

Newspaper article by Nick Meo; The Birmingham Post (England), October 13, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...championed by Diana, Princess of Wales, shortly before her death. The Second International Conference on the Detection of Abandoned Landmines has been organised by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
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Flower Power

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 11, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...often-tragic business of landmine detection might soon be taken over by...civilians the location of planted landmines might do the work instead...turn red in the presence of landmines. It actually detects the gas...action. About 100 million landmines are believed to have been...
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After the Taliban, Price of Property Is Biggest Issue

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 18, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...such a short time. Stalls were set out offering advice on landmines and information on future redevelopment plans while an Afghan...inside the doors of the compound local children tried out mine detection equipment while adults were shown how to recognise and mark...
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Dogs (and Other Animals.) of War

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 26, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pollution could confuse complex detection equipment and make it hard to pick...being used in Africa to detect landmines. The Gambian giant pouched rat...to remove more than 100 million landmines left behind from conflicts that...
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Punters Point the Finger at Schroders

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 29, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...easyJet nosedived 8p more to 247p PipeHawk, which produces and develops ground-probing radar systems, for the detection of landmines and utilities underground, jumped 31/2p to 113/4p on talk of lucrative contracts in the pipeline. Online learning...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: landmines detection

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Mine , in Warfare

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...are called "dumb" or persistent mines. To prevent magnetic detection, modern land mines have often been encased in plastic rather...China also have not signed. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations, won the 1997...

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