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The Bomb started in 1999, formed by Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun.Despite the band's quiet beginnings, Steve Albini (), Big Black, recorded half of their first LP, Torch Songs, which featured the original line-up of John Maxwell (The Mangos) on guitar and Paul Garcia on drums and backing vocals (Death and Memphis), with Steev Custer (Death and Memphis) taking over bass duties.
Fronted by Nam Loc and her brother, Tung Linh, a renowned guitar player in Vietnam at the time, the group played regularly at the My Phung bar in Saigon. On May 29, 1971, they played at South Vietnam's first International rock festival, Live at the Saigon Zoo. On April 8, 1971, a bomb exploded in the bar killing one GI and a 14-year-old girl.
In 1993, Duane Peters left The Exploding Fuck Dolls and teamed up with Kerry Martinez to start a new band called U.S. Bombs. The band's first release was a double 7-inch called "Scouts of America" released in 1994 on Vinyl Dog Records with Peters on vocals, Martinez on guitar, Steve Reynolds on bass, and Benny Rapp III on drums.
In July 1962, the US carried out the Starfish Prime test, exploding a 1.44 Mt (6.0 PJ) bomb 400 kilometres (250 mi; 1,300,000 ft) above the mid-Pacific Ocean.This demonstrated that the effects of a high-altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated.
The band began touring on February 19 in the U.S. and Canada. [14] On April 26, 2011, the band released their sixth studio album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. [15] The band served as one of the support acts for Nine Inch Nails on their North American leg of the Twenty Thirteen Tour in late 2013, alternating dates with Godspeed You!
The band's fifth album, Gary, was released on 20 September 2024 and was No 1 on the UK Albums Chart a week later. Produced by J Lloyd and James Skelly , the album is named after an 8-foot (2.4 m) fibreglass gorilla that was stolen from a Lanarkshire garden centre in early 2023.
A thermobaric bomb is a type of explosive that utilizes oxygen from the surrounding air to generate an intense, high-temperature explosion, and in practice the blast wave typically produced by such a weapon is of a significantly longer duration than that produced by a conventional condensed explosive. The fuel-air bomb is one of the best-known ...
Trees can explode when struck by lightning. [3] [15] [16] [17] The strong electric current is carried mostly by the water-conducting sapwood below the bark, heating it up and boiling the water. The pressure of the steam can make the trunk burst. [3] [17] This happens especially with trees whose trunks are already dying or rotting.