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Minefields to Minespace: Tracing the Changes in Remote and Automated Violence from Booby Traps and Landmines to IEDs and Killer Robots

• 12 January 2015 • 1 Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: architecture, booby traps, Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, Demining, Drones, IEDs, Killer Robots, Landmine, Minefields, Minespace, Political Geography, Rhizome

Progress on Landmines in 2014

• 10 December 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: Demining, John Kerry, Landmine, landmine clearance, Landmine Monitor, landmines, Mine Ban Treaty, Ottawa Convention

Just Cyberpeace in an Age of Autonomy

• 10 November 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: Autonomy, CITIZENFOUR, Cyberjustice, Cyberpeace, Edward Snowden, Killer Robots, landmines, MonsterMind, Snowden

“Growing autonomy in weapons poses a grave threat to humanitarian and human rights law”

• 6 October 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: Autonomous Weapons Systems, Autonomy, Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, human rights, ICRC, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, international humanitarian law, Killer Robots, landmines, LARs, LAWS, Littoral, Military Robotics, Navy, Obama, Robotic Weapons, Robotics

A Brief History of US Policy on Landmines

• 28 September 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Korea, United States of America, USA
Tags: Demining, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Korea, landmines, Leahy, MAG America, mine action, Obama, stockpiles, US, USA, use

What Shape Is a Minefield?

• 28 August 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in South Sudan, United States of America, USA
Tags: Demining, geography, landmines, MAG, MAG America, Minesweeper, Space, war

John Oliver on America’s Shocking Nuclear Carelessness

• 17 August 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: arms control, disarmament, John Oliver, Nuclear Weapons, nukes

Staten Island’s tainted edge (Geologic City report #3)

• 1 August 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: Brooklyn, Friends of the Pleistocene, International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, Manhattan Project, Military Waste, New York City, Staten Island, Toxic Weapons of War, Underwater Munitions, Uranium, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

Obama’s New Landmine Policy: Change I Can Believe In, Tentatively

• 9 July 2014 • 1 Comment

Posted in United States of America
Tags: Antipersonnel Landmine Ban, Bush, Defense, Human Rights Watch, landmines, Mine Ban Treaty, National Security, Obama, Pentagon, State Department, US Campaign to Ban Landmines, USA

US Landmine Policy Review: Supposedly Ending “Soon”, Still Stalled for Now

• 7 November 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in United States of America, USA
Tags: #banminesusa, Antipersonnel Landmine Ban, Arms Trade Treaty, Bush, Clinton, conventional weapons, Demining, humanitarian, Landmine, landmine clearance, landmine policy review, landmines, Meeting of States Parties, Mine Ban Treaty, NATO, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Ottawa Convention, Ottawa Treaty, US Campaign to Ban Landmines, USA, USCBL, Zach Hudson