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Bomb disposal technicians wearing bomb suits to protect against an Improvised Explosive Device ( IED ) use a small, ice-based chiller unit strapped to their leg with a Liquid Circulating Garment, usually a vest, worn over their torso to maintain their core temperature at safe levels.
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Bomb and disposal
* Bomb disposal — to render safe hazardous explosive ordnance, such as terrorist devices or unexploded wartime bombs.
Bomb disposal is an all encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the following fields:
Bomb fuzes incorporating anti-handling devices were specifically designed to kill bomb disposal personnel.
Bomb disposal officers were called in and the Red Cross set up a centre in Newmarket for those who were stranded.
After all the people were ordered to safety, a specialized Bomb disposal robot was sent to him with a pair of scissors, so that he could cut off the explosives, all the while telling soldiers that he did not want to die.
Bomb disposal experts from the police and the British military defused as many as 8, 000 home-made bombs.
* Bomb Disposal Section performs Bomb disposal tasks, bomb investigation tasks and other work with involving explosives.
Bomb and bomb
In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.
* 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
A person nearby dropped a suitcase in the resulting panic which prompted a cry of " Bomb, bomb, run!
** The Tybee Bomb, a 7, 600 pound ( 3, 500 kg ) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia.
The most powerful non-nuclear bomb is Russian " Father of All Bombs " ( officially Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power ( ATBIP )) followed by the United States Air Force's MOAB ( officially Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or more commonly known as the " Mother of All Bombs ").
He led the team that designed the largest pure fission bomb ever detonated, the Super Oralloy Bomb (" SOB "), which had a yield of 500 kilotons in its only test ( Ivy King ).
Tsar Bomba (; " Emperor Bomb ") is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated and its October 30, 1961 test was the most powerful artificial explosion in human history.
The Tsar Bomb was a three-stage Teller – Ulam design hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons ( Mt ).
The Guided Bomb Unit 28 ( GBU-28 ) is a 5, 000-pound ( 2, 268 kg ) laser-guided " bunker busting " bomb nicknamed " Deep Throat " produced originally by the Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York.
SAC had many Radar Bomb Scoring ( RBS ) sites across the country which had very similar acquisition and tracking radar, plus similar computerized plotting boards which were used to record the bomber tracks and bomb release points.
Image: Atom Bomb Pit 1 Little Boy a. JPG | The atom bomb pit on Tinian's North Field, where Little Boy was loaded aboard the Enola Gay.
In Michael Karpin's 2001 documentary " A Bomb in the Basement ", Abel Thomas, chief of political staff for France's defense minister at the time said Francis Perrin, head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, advised then-Prime Minister Guy Mollet that Israel should be provided with a nuclear bomb.
Both Davis-Monthan and Fort Worth Army Airfields were B-29 training bases during World War II, and the Eighth Air Force Bomb Groups were simply activated at the same field and on the same day as the original Army Air Force Continental Air Forces training bomb groups were inactivated.
* M83 submunition, a US copy of the German Butterfly Bomb of World War II ; used in the M29 cluster bomb
Since it was considered dangerous to have large stocks of shells on board the ships that were firing them, and because the reinforced mortar platforms occupied so much space below decks, bomb vessels were usually accompanied by a tender to carry ammunition as well as the ordnance officers in charge of firing the mortars. However as naval warfare became more advanced ' Bomb Ships ' were also accompanied by normal cannon holding frigates to protect them from direct assault, by faster, smaller vessels.
* Stabilizing Automatic Bomb Sight ( SABS ) a Royal Air Force bomb sight introduced for precision bombing with similar capabilities to the Norden bomb sight.
On November 24, 1944, he led the first mission of the XXI Bomber Command to bomb Japan, 110 aircraft of the 73rd Bomb Wing to Tokyo, with wing commander Brig.
The designation " Target Marker Bomb " was a euphemism used to disguise the nature of the bomb, so that its dimensions and weights etc.
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