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Most military high explosives today cannot be set off without a secondary. Still not great to have lying around, but it’s also not just TNT.

• bombcar 4y ago
  But can the secondary be set off without a tertiary?
• pvaldes 4y ago
  Four people walking in a forest near Chernobyl killed by a land mine today. And farmers found also potato fields with land mines buried on it. We can create the most "tremendous" and beautiful and well written law possible. It will not change the fact that war criminals don't obey the law, and that some armies are using still a lot of obsolete stuff. Landmines are still an unsolved problem.
  • samatman 4y ago
    Was this an old mine, or a new one due to the war? Old mines don't decay, which is why new ones do. Civilians being killed in war is tragic, but also seems out-of-scope, militaries aren't going to stop using area denial weapons. Making sure they don't kill people once they're no longer intended to is as close as we're likely to come without reaching utopia.
  • sidewndr46 4y ago
    Ukraine is an active warzone. Not very surprising someone was killed by military ordinance.
    • pvaldes 4y ago
      A country defending its frontiers with a warning mine field openly marked and delimited is not very surprising. A country claiming that "this is not a war" putting bombs in random places in another country without any warning sign with the only purpose to kill as many civilians as possible, should be --very-- surprising. Is a totally different situation.