Land mines defined combat in both World War I and World War II, and were a major part of war plans during the Cold War. But the 1997 Ottawa Treaty began to remove them from stockpiles across 163 ...

Land mines and other unexploded remnants of war continue to pose a deadly threat ... anti-personnel mine nestled in dry soil. “This one can take off a leg,” he said. “We have to detonate ...

Landmines are small and unassuming devices that have considerable effects in modern war ... some mines need only to wound or maim enemy soldiers. Such is the case with the PFM-1 Lepestok (or ...