Why Landmines Are The Deadliest Legacy Of War

Josh and Chuck dive into the surprisingly overlooked global crisis of landmines, exploring their surprisingly recent origins in the American Civil War and their evolution through World Wars I and II into a devastating modern problem. They break down the different types of mines, from small anti-personnel blast mines to massive anti-tank weapons, and explain why these weapons remain so deadly even decades after conflicts end. The episode also covers international efforts to ban landmines and the cutting-edge—and sometimes surprisingly low-tech—methods being used to find and remove millions of these buried weapons around the world.