This work discusses the vexed issue of banning entire weapons systems from national military inventories, and the inherent problems with doing so.

The banning of landmines.

Whether directly or indirectly, intentional or unintentional, through negligence or even with due diligence, humans are especially skillful at creating disasters, a truth that is quite evident throughout history. As follows are but some of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history.