Re:After 100 years World War I battlefields are poisoned and...
by tarpherder on Saturday July 30, 2016 @07:12AM
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You mean illegal as in prohibited by the Convention on Cluster Munitions[1]? Signed by all civilized countries of the world, of course. Except for, among others, the U.S., China and Russia.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munition...
The issue with forcefully exploding mines is that a certain number might be defective, and/or unstable. Maybe the trigger doesn't work well enough - but maybe it can still go off - perhaps the main charge becomes unstable on its own etc.
There's a reason anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions are illegal (well, in/by civilized countries, anyway) - it's really, really hard to de-mine/clear up this stuff.
Interesting video.