Landmines
A land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it. Such a device is typically detonated automatically by way of pressure when a target steps on it or drives over it, although other detonation mechanisms are also sometimes used. A land mine may cause damage by direct blast effect, by fragments that are thrown by the blast, or by both. The use of land mines is controversial because of their potential as indiscriminate weapons. They …
WikipediaPublications
Wilson Center Canada · 10 January 2024 English
11 The US and China are Food Superpowers THE US PRODUCES: CHINA PRODUCES: China's growing appetite means greater 22% 32% 30% 29% 22% 18% potential for US-China food businesses and …
it does not trigger economic or geostrategic landmines. For years, US Though rice produces less global …
CCA: Council of Canadian Academies · 28 November 2023 English
Quantum Potential Expert Panel on the Responsible Adoption of Quantum Technologies Quantum Potential Expert Panel on the Responsible Adoption of Quantum Technologies COUNCIL OF CANADIAN ACADEMIES 180 Elgin Street, Suite …
structures (e.g., bunkers) and buried objects (e.g., landmines, underwater mines) (Krelina, 2021). Finally, quantum …
CCA: Council of Canadian Academies · 28 November 2023 English
Quantum Potential Expert Panel on the Responsible Adoption of Quantum Technologies Quantum Potential Expert Panel on the Responsible Adoption of Quantum Technologies COUNCIL OF CANADIAN ACADEMIES 180 Elgin Street, Suite …
structures (e.g., bunkers) and buried objects (e.g., landmines, underwater mines) (Krelina, 2021). Finally, quantum …
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy · 11 September 2023 English
The Munk School is in the heart of downtown Toronto, You will benefit from its excellent reputation and one of the largest cities in North America and one of the …
into a succinct argument or idea: no guns and landmines) across the globe. You learn to executive has …
RI: Rideau Institute · 6 July 2023 English
Online moderator will chime in periodically with questions from online participants. [...] Online moderator will chime in periodically with questions from online participants. [...] Online moderator will chime in periodically …
periodically with questions from online participants. • Landmines/The Ottawa Treaty • The Arms Trade Treaty, general …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2023 English
Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet …
“fearful of the risks from legacy munitions and landmines, and cautious about their future.”65 In chapter …
RI: Rideau Institute · 11 February 2023 English
Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 142.198.25.120, on 05 May 2023 at 20:55:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/960CCB0464744F845B09434D932699EC
is what happened with the 1997 Anti-personnel Landmines Convention:41 although not ratified by the United … (entered into force 1 March 1999) (Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention). 42 Adam Bower, Norms without the … existing forum, as occurred for the Anti-personnel Landmines and Cluster Munitions conventions.157 5.9 Conclusion … elimination by September 2023.9 Anti-personnel landmines are another category of weapons against which … Canadian government took the issue of anti-personnel landmines out of the Conference on Disarmament, where it …
RI: Rideau Institute · 26 January 2023 English
Laurent in the Gray Lecture of 1947.22 The foundations of twentieth-century arms control and military export restraint – including the necessity of proportionality, discrimination, and the laws of war – …
anti-aircraft gun with limited trajectories” and “some landmines.” 10 External to London, “Release of F86’s to …
Public Order Emergency Commission (Canada) · 7 December 2022 English
One was to provide strategic direction to the 16 management to the event that was taking place because of the 17 size and scope that it had grown to, and …
whole story there, and what are the 6 potential landmines that we'll have to navigate through this? 7 What …
RI: Rideau Institute · 2 December 2022 English
This year the keepers of the so-called “Doomsday Clock” at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have set it at 100 seconds before midnight on the basis of nuclear and …
the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines is now a distant memory. That activism was supported …
