Abstract
Abstract : Anti-personnel landmines (APL) left in the aftermath of various conflicts around the world claim a multitude of civilian victims each year. Dismay with this annual human toll spawned a worldwide movement to ban the manufacture, use or sale of APL, culminating in Ottawa, Canada on 3 December 1997 when 122 nations, but not the United States, signed a treaty implementing such a ban. While the United States supports the general goals of the treaty, our current APL policy is not in accord with an absolute ban. Instead, US policy preserves our ability to use non-self-destructing APL along the Korean DMZ and self-destructing APL worldwide. This paper will show that US APL policy is sound and that we should not sign the Ottawa Treaty.
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