Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
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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.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems
Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
National Research Council
Office of International Affairs - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780309502726
- Release date
- 2001
