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Preventing Landmines

Preventing Landmines. What are landmines?. Landmines are an explosive mine that is placed on or under the ground. History of the Landmine. The landmine was invented in the 1500s in Europe by Pedro Navarro. How they work.

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Preventing Landmines

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  1. Preventing Landmines

  2. What are landmines? • Landmines are an explosive mine that is placed on or under the ground.

  3. History of the Landmine • The landmine was invented in the 1500s in Europe by Pedro Navarro.

  4. How they work • Landmines are basically explosive devices that are designed to blow when triggered by pressure or a tripwire.

  5. This is the inside of an M15 Anti-tank Land Mine, so you have an idea of what landmines look like from the inside.

  6. Types of Landmines • Blast Mines • Fragmentation mines • Bounding fragmentation mines

  7. Where are Landmines? • Most landmines are found in the Middle East and Asia. Currently, there are more than 100 million landmines located in 70 countries around the world.

  8. Countries with Mines

  9. What They Were Used for? • The purpose of mines when used by armed forces is to disable any person or vehicle that comes into contact with it by an explosion.

  10. How Can we Prevent Them? • There are some organizations around the world that are trying to rid landmines. • Here are some of them: • UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) • United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) • United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS)

  11. Bibliography • These are the sites I used: • http://newint.org/easier-english/landmine/landminelook.html • http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/sds/advocacy_destruction/index.asp • http://www.mineaction.org/

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