Alternative Technologies To Replace Antipersonnel Landmines

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Office of International Affairs,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309073493

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Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Office of International Affairs,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines Pdf

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.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1564322629

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Landmine Monitor Report 2001 by Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

Author : Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson,Jacqueline MacDonald,J. R. Lockwood,John E. McFee,Thomas Altshuler,Thomas Broach
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0833033018

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Alternatives for Landmine Detection by Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson,Jacqueline MacDonald,J. R. Lockwood,John E. McFee,Thomas Altshuler,Thomas Broach Pdf

At the rate that government and nongovernmental organizations are clearing existing landmines, it will take 450-500 years to rid the world of them. Concerned about the slow pace of demining, the Office of Science and Technology asked RAND to assess potential innovative technologies being explored and to project what funding would be required to foster the development of the more promising ones. The authors of this report suggest that the federal government undertake a research and development effort to develop a multisensor mine detection system over the next five to eight years.

Author : Stuart Maslen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480476

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Anti-Personnel Mines under Humanitarian Law : A View from the Vanishing Point by Stuart Maslen Pdf

Anti-Personnel Mines under Humanitarian Law: A View From the Vanishing Point considers in depth the various customary and conventional legal regimes applicable to the use of anti-personnel mines. All involved with the global effort to control and eliminate anti-personnel mines as well as the policy-makers who are concerned about the devastation resulting from the widespread deployment of these arbitrary weapons need to familiarize themselves with the information presented in this timely volume. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : Richard A. Matthew,Bryan McDonald,Kenneth R. Rutherford
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791483992

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Landmines and Human Security by Richard A. Matthew,Bryan McDonald,Kenneth R. Rutherford Pdf

An impressive array of activists, scholars, government officials, journalists, and landmine victims themselves are gathered here to tell the dramatic and inspiring story of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Organized in the early 1990s, the ICBL is a network of more than one thousand nongovernmental organizations worldwide, working for a global ban on landmines. It was an important force behind the treaty to ban antipersonnel landmines that was signed in Ottawa in 1997, and which led to its being awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, along with its coordinator.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063234624

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Military Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Bower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198789871

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Norms Without the Great Powers by Adam Bower Pdf

Revised version of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of British Columbia.

Author : Harald Müller,Carmen Wunderlich
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820344249

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Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control by Harald Müller,Carmen Wunderlich Pdf

This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of the key established and rising state actors are considered, as well as those of nonaligned countries, nongovernmental organizations, and international governing bodies. Recent studies on multilateral arms control tend to focus mostly on "structure," by which opportunities and constraints for action are created. This volume pays equal attention to "agency," through which opportunities and constraints to produce change or maintain the status quo are handled. In addition-and in greater depth than in recent studies-the volume acknowledges the force of moral and ethical impulses (alongside such factors as political, legal, and technological change) in the evolution of arms control norms. The volume begins with a look at the structure of regimes, at the conflicts residing in these structures, and at the dynamic processes in which these conflicts are worked out. The impact of extrinsic factors on norm dynamics is considered next, including technological change and shifts in attitudes and power structures. Essays on the role of agency in driving norm change conclude the volume, with a particular focus on norm entrepreneurship and the importance of acknowledging the competing justice claims surrounding norm-change efforts. Contributors: Una Becker-Jakob, Alexis Below, Marco Fey, Giorgio Franceschini, Andrea Hellmann, Gregor Hofmann, Friederike Klinke, Daniel Müller, Harald Müller, Franziska Plümmer, Carsten Rauch, Judith Reuter, Elvira Rosert, Annette Schaper, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Tabea Seidler-Diekmann, Simone Wisotzki, Carmen Wunderlich.

Author : Leon V. Sigal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135447915

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Negotiating Minefields by Leon V. Sigal Pdf

Against all odds, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines helped to enact a global treaty banning antipersonnel mines in 1997. For that achievement it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In this volume, Leon Sigal shows how a handful of NGOs with almost no mass base got more than 100 countries to outlaw a weapon that their armies had long used. It is a story of intrigue and misperception, of clashing norms and interests, of contentious bureaucratic and domestic politics. It is also a story of effective leadership, of sustained commitment to a cause, of alliances between campaigners and government officials, of a US senator who championed the ban, and of the skilful use of the news media. Despite this monumental effort, the campaign failed to get the United States to sign the treaty. Drawing on extensive internal documents and interviews with US officials and ban campaigners, Sigal tells the story of the in-fighting inside the Clinton administration, in the Pentagon, and within the ban campaign itself that led to this major setback for an otherwise unprecedented, successful global effort. Negotiating Minefields will be of interest to students and scholars of military and strategic studies and politics and international relations.

Author : Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564321134

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Landmines by Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) Pdf

10. The future of Landmines

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1564322629

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Landmine Monitor Report 2001 by Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309477352

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Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions Pdf

The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400,000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60,000 tons are added to the stockpile each year. Munitions include projectiles, bombs, rockets, landmines, and missiles. Open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of these munitions has been a common disposal practice for decades, although it has decreased significantly since 2011. OB/OD is relatively quick, procedurally straightforward, and inexpensive. However, the downside of OB and OD is that they release contaminants from the operation directly into the environment. Over time, a number of technology alternatives to OB/OD have become available and more are in research and development. Alternative technologies generally involve some type of contained destruction of the energetic materials, including contained burning or contained detonation as well as contained methods that forego combustion or detonation. Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions reviews the current conventional munitions demilitarization stockpile and analyzes existing and emerging disposal, treatment, and reuse technologies. This report identifies and evaluates any barriers to full-scale deployment of alternatives to OB/OD or non-closed loop incineration/combustion, and provides recommendations to overcome such barriers.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309040792

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Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests Pdf

During the 18-year program of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons (1945-1962), some of the 225,000 participants were exposed to radiation. Many of these participants have been experiencing sicknesses that may be test-related. Currently, test participants who had served in military units have pending over 6,000 claims for compensation at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This study presents improved methods for calculating the radiation doses to which these individuals were exposed, and are intended to be useful in the adjudication of their claims.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Application of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems to Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Safety
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780309175159

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Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Application of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems to Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Safety Pdf

The nuclear industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) have been working for several years on the development of an adequate process to guide the replacement of aging analog monitoring and control instrumentation in nuclear power plants with modern digital instrumentation without introducing off-setting safety problems. This book identifies criteria for the USNRC's review and acceptance of digital applications in nuclear power plants. It focuses on eight areas: software quality assurance, common-mode software failure potential, systems aspects of digital instrumentation and control technology, human factors and human-machine interfaces, safety and reliability assessment methods, dedication of commercial off-the-shelf hardware and software, the case-by-case licensing process, and the adequacy of technical infrastructure.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Marine Board,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Coastal Erosion Zone Management
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309041430

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Managing Coastal Erosion by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Marine Board,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Coastal Erosion Zone Management Pdf

More and more of the nation's vast coastlines are being filled with homes and vacation resorts. The result is an increasing number of structures built on erosion-prone shoresâ€"with many of these structures facing collapse or damage. In response to mounting property losses, Congress has given the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsibility for incorporating coastal erosion into its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This book from the National Research Council addresses the immediate question of how to develop an erosion insurance programâ€"as well as the larger issues raised by the continually changing face of our nation's shorelines. Managing Coastal Erosion explores major questions surrounding a national policy on coastal erosion: Should the federal government be in the business of protecting developers and individuals who build in erosion-prone coastal areas? How should such a program be implemented? Can it prompt more responsible management of coastal areas? The volume provides federal policymakers, state floodplain and resource managers, civil engineers, environmental groups, marine specialists, development companies, and researchers with invaluable information about the natural processes of coastal erosion and the effect of human activity on those processes. The book also details the workings of the NFIP, lessons to be learned from numerous state coastal management programs, and much more.