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‘Thermobaric (TBX) or “volumetric” explosives are used for niche weapon applications where the main injury or damage mechanism is intended to be by blast effects rather than fragmentation. As the

‘Our Members are directly involved operationally, with both commercial companies and NGOs, in mitigating the munition threat, others are training Ukrainian security force EOD personnel, supplying equipment, or providing the

Colin a Founder Council Member of IMCSE served in British Army operational EOD and Search Units, as an EOD School instructor, as the UK Ministry of Defence EOD analyst and

In Ukraine, brave women – some total novices–are stepping up to the task of ridding their country of huge amounts of lethal unexploded weaponry left by retreating Russian forces. It

In the deadliest attack since a 2017 truck bombing which killed more than 500 at least 120 people have been killed and almost 300 wounded near the Ministry of Education

Russia claims that Ukraine is preparing to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ on Ukrainian territory In a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General, following phone calls by the Russian Defence

Recent Russian actions signal a realisation that the Ukraine will not be integrated into an enlarged Russia governed by a compliant pro-Russian administration. President Putin has targeted Ukrainian power stations

Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) issued an initial English language Ukraine EOD Guide in May 2022 with a second edition issued in September 2022; GICHD also plan to

Reports of an underwater UXO clearance technology claiming to be harmless to the marine environment is challenged in an IMCSE Technical Publication. The published pressure measurements, indicating that there had

Over the past decades much has been written about the threat posed by landmines and in particular anti-personnel landmines. While there has been a great deal of debate about the