Landmine Action, for example, has called on states to curtail the use of explosive weapons in urban areas.
Currently, there are myriad ways to detect landmines, including manual techniques – for example, humans with metal detectors and prodders or specially trained detection dogs - and enormous mechanical vehicles like the US State Department's 'Hedgehog,' essentially a modified John Deere tractor with an armored cab and a side-mounted attachment arm for demining tools.
For example, excluding landmines action, Angola has appealed for a total of US$17,468,9922 in foreign emergency assistance in 2007 [ 101].
In Colombia, for example, you have landmines, crossfire, battles between the guerilla fighters and the Colombian army.
One real world situation where a detector plant could function is sensing ligands beneath the surface, for example to detect landmines or pollutants.
In Afghanistan, for example, a study of landmine and unexploded ordnance impacts helped researchers launch a key informant strategy for estimating civilian deaths over large areas [ 40].
In a 1995 Mozambique study, for example, researchers found rates of landmine-related death and injury far in excess of those suggested by prospective surveillance methods [ 38], while in a larger study of landmine impacts in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia, Mozambique, surveyors found that six percent of households suffered landmine victims, and that 25 87% suffered landmine-related impacts [ 39].
For example, "I stepped on a landmine when walking up a hill while [fleeing] in the jungle.
For example, an actor can deactivate a landmine, carry weapons, extinguish a fire, and rescue a trapped survivor.
They are tricky to concoct and more likely to kill their makers than their targets.PETN, for example, is found in military devices such as landmines, and it is sold commercially as a heart drug.
