Antipersonnel Land Mines: Why They Should Be Banned
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02613.x