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  2. Project Chariot - Wikipedia

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    Opposition came from the Inupiaq Alaska Native village of Point Hope, a few scientists engaged in environmental studies under AEC contract, and a handful of conservationists. [1] The grassroots protest soon was picked up by organizations with national reach, such as The Wilderness Society , the Sierra Club , and Barry Commoner 's Committee for ...

  3. Biden authorizes the shipment of antipersonnel land mines to ...

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    The shift in policy with land mines — which comes days after the Biden-Harris administration authorized Ukraine to use American-made long-range missiles to strike Russia’s Kursk region — is ...

  4. Area denial artillery munition - Wikipedia

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    Area denial artillery munition (ADAM) is a family of United States land mines and 155 mm artillery projectiles. The mines carried by these projectiles are the M67 long-duration anti-personnel mines and M72 short-duration anti-personnel landmines intended to maim or kill enemy combatants. The duration refers to the self-destruct time, which is ...

  5. Blast resistant mine - Wikipedia

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    A soldier examines two inverted VS-1.6 blast-resistant anti-tank landmines. Cut-away view of a VS-MK2 blast-resistant anti-personnel mine. A blast resistant mine is a landmine (intended for anti-tank or anti-personnel purposes) with a fuze which is designed to be insensitive to the shock wave from a nearby explosion.

  6. International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Wikipedia

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    The Campaign receiving the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations whose objective is a world free of anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, where mine and cluster munitions survivors see their rights respected and can lead fulfilling lives.

  7. M15 mine - Wikipedia

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    The lower diagram shows two anti-tank landmines connected by a cord attached to the upper mine's carrying handle. The cord is attached to a pull fuze installed in a secondary fuze well in the bottom mine. M15 mines removed from a Cuban minefield being stacked for disposal. Three of them show additional fuze wells on the side

  8. PMN mine - Wikipedia

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    The top of the mine has a black rubber X-shaped pressure plate. The filling is an RDX/TNT based explosive that is quite similar to Composition B. As with the PMN-1, the PMN-2 has an unusually large explosive filling when compared to many other anti-personnel landmines.

  9. HPD series of mines - Wikipedia

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    The HPD-2 is a development of the HPD-1 mine. It incorporates a series of enhancements to both the warhead and fuzing mechanism. The mine's warhead is said to be a "second generation" Misnay–Schardin effect design capable of penetrating up to 150 millimeters of armour.