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  • Miss Landmine 2008

    A beauty pageant for landmine victims.


    In addition to traditional landmines, cluster bombs are also a serious danger. An anti-cluster bomb treaty was signed this December by over 100 countries, but most major military powers haven't participated (United States, Russia, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, etc.). This is because cluster bombs are highly effective weapons.

    A cluster bomb is a weapon which flings out tens to hundreds of little bomblets, called "submunitions". These range in type and size, but the anti-personnel types are about the size of a baseball. They scatter over huge areas, catching unlucky men and machines out in the open, giving them no place to hide.

    The problem are submuntions which fail to explode. They inadvertantly turn into landmines, which lay hidden for years until some unsuspecting civilian plows a field or cleans up street rubble. Though a 5% failure rate doesn't sound too bad, when you take into consideration the larger number of submuntions deployed, we won't have a shortage of qualified Miss Landmine contestants.

    From GlobalSecurity.org:

    Submunition function reliability requirement is no less than 95 percent. With a 95 percent submunition function reliability, one CBU-58 (with 650 submunitions) could produce up to 38 unexploded submunitions. A typical B-52 dropping a full load of 45 CBU-58/CBU-71, each containing 650 submunitions, could produce an average of some 1700 unexploded sub-munitions.
    "By concealing your desires, you may trick people into being cruel about the wrong thing." --Steven Aylett, Fain the Sorcerer
    "You gotta get me to the tall corn." --David Mamet, Spartan
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    Amateurs talk technology, professionals talk conditions." --(unknown)

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    Re: Miss Landmine 2008

    A picture from a STLToday.com article:



    Another from a TimesOnline blog:



    And an interesting story about a hail storm which saved lives in Lebanon.
    "By concealing your desires, you may trick people into being cruel about the wrong thing." --Steven Aylett, Fain the Sorcerer
    "You gotta get me to the tall corn." --David Mamet, Spartan
    "
    Amateurs talk technology, professionals talk conditions." --(unknown)

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