ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 6月29日 17時08分

Photo @Cory Richards On assignment for @ナショナルジオグラフィック with @intotheokavango. The story of a land mine is long and convoluted. First, the earth provides the ingredients for the explosives. Sophisticated minds come together to design a weapon with diabolical efficacy. The design is fabricated en mass and the raw ingredients combined. Some mines are designed to blow up tanks, others to simply remove the lower portion of a leg in an attempt to divert resources in a ground battle. Once the mines are assembled, the arms trade pushes them on various trajectories around the globe. Basic shipping and receiving is accounted for. Once the mines have reached their destination country, they are moved to strategic tactical locations, both offensive and defensive. They are then loaded into packs and put on the backs of soldiers who carry them into the bush. Finally, they are buried in a shallow hole to wait. The energy it takes to put a mine in the ground is matched only by its explosive power. The fact is that most mines never detonate in combat, their potential energy left dormant in the ground long after the fighting stops. As areas are repopulated, the mines pose a major threat to the people moving back in. @thehalotrust and other demining organizations often see the end of the life of a mine as they go in and clean up the messy aftermath of conflicts as seen here. There are an estimated 40,000 mines in the ground near this battlefield in Angola, left over from the war that ended in 2002. Seen here is the explosive power of eight anti-tank mines detonated simultaneously...the life of the mines finally and thankfully over. @thephotosociety @natgeocreative

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