Anti-personnel land mines are the predominant terror weapon of our
time. With more than 100 million in the ground in more than 40
countries, they have killed and maimed more people in the last 50
years than nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles combined. Can we
deploy high technology in the form of advanced sensors and
semi-autonomous robots to close the gap between the cost to lay a mine
(about US$3) and the cost to remove it (about US$1000) and thereby rid the
world of this plague? This directory contains a
collection of documents
describing the land mine problem and clearance technologies.