Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines

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

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 National Security Environments and the Context for Landmines; 5 3 Current Uses of Antipersonnel Landmines; 6 4 Evaluation Methodology; 7 5 Alternatives Available Today; 8 6 Alternatives Available by 2006; 9 7 Alternatives Potentially Available After 2006; 10 8 Conclusions and Recommendations; 11 References; 12 Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members; 13 Appendix B: Committee Meetings; 14 Appendix C: Current Types of U.S. Landmines; 15 Appendix D: Value of Antipersonnel Landmines in Unprotected Mixed Minefields; 16 Appendix E: The Ottawa Convention and Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons; 17 Appendix F: Signatories to the Ottawa Convention and Their Alternatives to Landmines; 18 Appendix G: Mission Need Statements