DEFENSEWATCH for Thursday, October 23, 2003

Thursday, October 23, 2003

THE ECONOMICS OF DEMINING DEFINES SUCCESS AND FAILURE

Over 100 million land mines lay scattered across the world. Every week, 200 more innocent people die or suffer severe injury when they encounter these hidden menaces; many are children. Short of probing every square inch of every acre by hand, how can we rid the land of these war leavings? And what does it cost? There is a broad range of effective demining equipment under development today with a surprisingly wide range of development and operating costs: The Swedish Bofors Mine-Guzzler is a... Sign in to see full entry.

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