So-called self-destructing mines stay active up to nineteen weeks.

Evidence

With “self-destructing mines,” another euphemism—and another form of temporal camouflage—has arisen. As Human Rights Watch has observed, self-destructing mines may take up to nineteen weeks to become inactive. And a significant number malfunction, resulting in the usual unpredictable mix of live and dead duds, a mix that continues to pose a humanitarian hazard to civilians that requires painstaking demining. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 697

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names ‘self-destructing mines’ and ‘temporal camouflage’ as euphemisms masking long active life—central to the book’s unmasking project.
• XREF: Reinforces the president’s overarching thread on euphemism-as-temporal-camouflage and connects to chapter 47 and 48 on ‘precision’ and ‘smart’ weapon mislabeling.