... startlingly true, but it's hard to imagine Gordon or anyone else for that matter predicting that most landmine casualties would be innocent civilian's decades after the mines were planted. The modern mine was created during WWII with the development of 16 different anti-tank mines, and 10 anti-personnel mines. Since these first mines were planted in the earth's soil and ... a mine to be between $300-$1000. Some methods involve detonating entire mine fields which again causes great environmental destruction. Others painstakingly remove each mine one-by-one. There is no perfect method, it...

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