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bombs and are
We are not now afraid of atomic bombs in the same way that people once feared comets.
Intelligent people will admit that bombs and rockets of destruction are frightening whether they fall on Japan, London or Pearl Harbor.
The nuclear war is already being fought, except that the bombs are not being dropped on enemy targets -- not yet.
The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.
So be it -- then we must embark on a crash program for 200-megaton bombs of the common or hydrogen variety, and neutron bombs, which do not exist but are said to be the coming thing.
* 2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh
* 1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
Many attack aircraft, even ones that look like fighters, are optimized to drop bombs, with very little ability to engage in aerial combat.
Fins are also seen used as e. g., fletching on arrows and at the rear of some bombs, missiles, rockets, and self-propelled torpedoes.
In these cases, the front line, FEBA, FLOT and FLET are almost conceptual ideas ; and the term ' front line ' has come to refer more to any place where bullets and bombs are flying-or are likely to fly.
* 2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
* 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.
All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
However, at the 7th Zhuhai Airshow held at in November, 2008, the developer of the LT series revealed that LT series precision guided bombs are actually based on the American Paveway design.
In 1976 after a series of terror attacks by the Provisional IRA, Gaddafi announced that " the bombs which are convulsing Britain and breaking its spirit are the bombs of Libyan people.
The treaty does not include anti-tank mines, cluster bombs or claymore-type mines operated in command mode and focuses specifically on anti-personnel mines, because these pose the greatest long term ( post-conflict ) risk to humans and animals since they are typically designed to be triggered by any movement or pressure of only a few kilograms, whereas anti-tank mines require much more weight ( or a combination of factors that would exclude humans ).
* 1927 – The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
* 1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

bombs and harmless
At one end of the spectrum, relatively harmless stink bombs consist of ammonium sulfide, which smells strongly of rotten eggs.

bombs and automobile
Volcanic bombs are extrusive igneous rocks that range from the size of a book to small automobile, that are explosively ejected from stratovolcanoes during their peak eruptive phases.
Everyone silent, but many with tears running from their eyes ... The King was very pallid, Amélia animated, Maria Pia was overwhelmed ... The boats had hardly come alongside the yacht, when in the village there appeared, coming from Sintra, a automobile with civil revolutionaries, armed with carbines and bearing bombs, which they later indicated they were prepared to throw at the beach, if they had reached it at the time of the departure ...".
# Photo Finish-Another series of discoveries examined by Burke which include Eastman Kodak's Brownie, the disappearing elephant scare of 1867, billiard balls, celluloid as a substitute for ivory, false teeth that explode, gun cotton, double shot sound of a bullet, Mach's shock wave, aerodynamics, nuclear bombs, Einstein's relativity, Einstein's selenium, movie talkies, the vacuum tube amplifier, radio, railroad's use of wood, coal tar, gas lights, creosote, rubber, the Zeppelin, the automobile and finally how Adeline vulcanizes tires.

bombs and garage
On 1 June 1972, Meins and Andreas Baader along with Jan Carl Raspe went to check on a storage garage in Frankfurt where they kept materials for making bombs.
Mercy and Roy engage in a duel across the garage, mainly featuring Roy using various weapons ( like a crossbow ) and bombs ) an techniques to avoid or knock out Mercy, most of which fail him.

bombs and .
Each plane carried two five-hundred pound bombs.
The dark brown bombs hanging under each wing looked large and powerful.
One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.
With their load of bombs gone, the planes moved swiftly and easily.
Recent statements by well-known scientists regarding the destructive power of the newest nuclear bombs and the deadly fall-outs should be sufficient to still the voices of those who advocate nuclear warfare instead of negotiations.
The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.
I am referring to this country conducting atmosphere tests of nuclear bombs just because Russia is.
As I see it, if war starts and we survive the initial attack enough to be able to fight back, the nuclear weapons we now have -- at least the bombs -- can inflict all the demage that is necessary.
To our everlasting shame, we led the world in this nuclear arms race sixteen years ago when we dropped the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Just to remind the Communists that the bombs dropped on Japan were to end a war not start one.
Russia has showed its intentions by exploding bombs in peace time to try to frighten the world.
Some time ago, however, Mr. Khrushchev decided that when bigger bombs were made, the Soviet Union would make them.
He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.
She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.
It would be made in three waves -- the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below.
A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.
Ensign Vesole decided that he would not tarry until he heard the whispering of the bombs, and when night began to fall, he put Seaman 2/c Donald L. Norton and Seaman 1/c William A. Rochford on the guns and told them to start shooting the moment they saw an enemy silhouette.
Lieutenant Richardson could envy the officers and men of the John Harvey in their innocent assumption that the ship contained nothing more dangerous than high explosive bombs.

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