Vietnam is a country that found itself at the center of Indochina wars and was subjected to most intense aerial bombing in history. However, little research has been done on effect unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination household livelihoods rural Vietnam. In this paper, we investigate contaminating households. Livelihood choices are classified by cluster analysis techniques, measured district...

Landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW), which include unexploded ordnance (UXO) and abandoned explosive ordnance, represent a major threat to civilian. This demands that all the mines and ERW affecting the places where ordinary people live must be cleared, and safety of people in areas that have been cleared must be guaranteed. UXO is explosive ordnance that has been primed, fuzzed, arme...

Under the Range Rule (1997), the Department of Defense defines unexploded ordnance (UXO) as a piece of ordnance that has been deployed, but has not exploded. This study investigated a subset of UXO including artillery shells and mortars (projectiles), but excluding landmines. UXO contaminates approximately 15 million acres of land in the United States alone. The geophysical tools most frequentl...

The Wrong Man is President! Overvotes in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida Using ballot-level data from the NORC Florida ballots project and ballot-image files, I argue that overvoted ballots in the 2000 presidential election in Florida included more than 50,000 votes that were intended to go to either Bush or Gore but instead were discarded. The primary reason for this was defective el...

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) is a source of concern at several U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) sites. Localization of munitions and fate and transport of the explosive compounds from these munitions are a major issue of concern. A set of laboratory experiments were conducted in specially designed flux chambers to measure the evaporative flux of three explosive compounds (2,4-dinitrotoluene, 2,6-d...

With support from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and Environment Security Technology and Certification Program (ESTCP), SAIC has developed and demonstrated a marine unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey system designed for use in shallow water (<9.1m). The air foil shaped sensor platform has two actuatorcontrolled elevators to control depth, altitude and attitud...