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• kitchen utensils or appliances, except in military establishments, military locations, ormilitary supply depots;o This does not authorize kitchen utensils or appliances in military hospitals, POWcamps, or military chapels to be booby-trapped. 281• objects clearly of a religious nature;• historic monuments, works of art, or places of worship that constitute the cultural orspiritual heritage of peoples; 282 or• animals or their carcasses.6.12.5 General Rules for Using Mines, Booby-Traps, and Other Devices. The use ofmines, booby traps, and other devices is subject to the same rules and principles that govern theuse of other weapons to conduct attacks. 283 However, because mines, booby-traps, and otherdevices explode only after their emplacement, there have been different views as to when the useof a mine constitutes an “attack.” 284 Thus, the CCW Amended Mines Protocol seeks to clarifyhow these principles apply to the use of mines, booby-traps, and other devices. These rulesinclude:280 United States, Statement on Consent to Be Bound by the CCW Amended Mines Protocol, May 24, 1999, 2065UNTS 128, 129 (“The United States reserves the right to use other devices (as defined in Article 2(5) of theAmended Mines Protocol) to destroy any stock of food or drink that is judged likely to be used by an enemy militaryforce, if due precautions are taken for the safety of the civilian population.”).281 Article-by-Article Analysis of CCW Amended Mines Protocol, 26, Enclosure A to Warren Christopher, Letter ofSubmittal, Dec. 7, 1996, MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT TRANSMITTING THE CCW AMENDED MINES PROTOCOL,PROTOCOL III ON INCENDIARY WEAPONS, AND PROTOCOL IV ON BLINDING LASER WEAPONS 26 (“The exception inparagraph 1(g) of Article 7 does not, however, authorize kitchen utensils or appliances in military hospitals, militaryPOW camps or military chapels to be booby-trapped.”).282 United States, Statement on Consent to Be Bound by the CCW Amended Mines Protocol, May 24, 1999, 2065UNTS 128, 129 (“The United states [sic] understands that Article 7(1)(i) of the Amended Mines Protocol refers onlyto a limited class of objects that, because of their clearly recognizable characteristics and because of their widelyrecognized importance, constitute a part of the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples.”). Refer to § 5.18.1(Definition of Cultural Property).283 Refer to § 5.5 (Rules on Conducting Assaults, Bombardments, and Other Attacks).284 See, e.g., A.P.V. Rogers, Mines, Booby-traps and Other Devices, 30 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS521, 524-25 (Nov.-Dec. 1990) (“One of the difficulties of the conference [that negotiated the Original MinesProtocol] was to apply to mine warfare the provisions of Additional Protocol I dealing with attacks. Agreementcould not be reached as to what stage in the mine-laying process amounts to an attack: when the mine is laid, whenit is armed, when somebody is endangered by it or when it actually explodes. To avoid these difficulties it wasnecessary to draw up special rules relating to the use of mines.”); ICRC AP COMMENTARY 622 (1960) (“However,the question may arise at what point the use of mines constitutes an attack in the sense of this provision [AP I art.51(4)(b)]. Is it when the mine is laid, when it is armed, when a person is endangered by it, or when it finallyexplodes? The participants at the meeting of the International Society of Military Law and the Law of War(Lausanne, 1982) conceded that from the legal point of view the use of mines constituted an attack in the sense ofthe Protocol when a person was directly endangered by such a mine.”).367