In the years since the fall of Saigon, over 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance (explosives) left behind from that conflict. Every 22 minutes ...

The Bush administration’s landmine policy states, “The United States will continue to develop non-persistent anti-personnel and anti-tank landmines.” 21 According to budget documents ...

According to a media report, which the Pentagon has yet to confirm or deny, in May 2005 the U.S. Army was to begin deploying to Iraq a new remote-controlled landmine system called Matrix ...

We want zero. Mines are part of that equation" By Jeff Schogol Posted on Jan 31, 2020 9:31 PM EST The U.S. military is now free to use land mines all over the world, but only four-star generals ...

A wreck has been found off the Aberdeenshire coast that is believed to be a lost Royal Navy warship, sunk by a torpedo during World War One. HMS Hawke was discovered by a team of divers about 70 ...

In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant an average of 500 rounds a minute with a range of over 3,000 yards or 2,743m. Compare this to the best riflemen and their bolt action, single fire ...

In 1997, she was a co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize for coordinating the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. And now, decades later, she's advocating for a similar ban on these weapons as ...

US President Donald Trump has lifted restrictions on the deployment of anti-personnel landmines by American forces. The decision reverses a 2014 Obama administration ban on the use of such weapons ...

The Duke of Sussex has dedicated much of his public life to continuing Princess Diana’s humanitarian legacy, particularly her groundbreaking work in Angola’s minefields Erin Hill is the Senior ...

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

Millions of landmines are spread across Ukraine. A massive effort is underway to find and remove the deadly devices, but it will take a generation or more to be rid of them. The Ukrainian military ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Delicately brushing away the soil with his fingers, Aki Ra uncovers a dark green land mine buried two inches beneath ...