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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811513303321

Titolo

Alternative technologies to replace antipersonnel landmines / / Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Office of International Affairs, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. ; ; [Great Britain], : National Academy Press, c2001

ISBN

0-309-17116-4

0-309-50272-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 123 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

355.825115

Soggetti

Land mines

Mines (Military explosives)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

"This study was supported by Contract/Grant No. V101(93)P-1637,TO#16 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Defense."--Title page verso

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Acronyms""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 National Security Environments and the Context for Landmines""; ""3 Current Uses of Antipersonnel Landmines""; ""4 Evaluation Methodology""; ""5 Alternatives Available Today""; ""6 Alternatives Available by 2006""; ""7 Alternatives Potentially Available After 2006""; ""8 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""

""Appendix B Committee Meetings"" ""Appendix C Current Types of U.S. Landmines""; ""Appendix D Value of Antipersonnel Landmines in Unprotected Mixed Minefields""; ""Appendix E The Ottawa Convention and Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons""; ""Appendix F Signatories to the Ottawa Convention and Their Alternatives to Landmines""; ""Appendix G Mission Need Statements""

Sommario/riassunto

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.