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Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy: Normalisation and Acceptance after the Cold War. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-81732-5. Neufeld, Jacob (1990). The Development of Ballistic Missiles in the United States Air Force, 1945–1960. Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force. ISBN 0-912799-62-5.
An explosion of oil tankers at the Islam-Qala customs post that damaged or destroyed more than 500 oil tankers. [138] [139] [140] 13 February 2021 Afghanistan: Balkh Province: 30 Unknown An explosion occurred at a Taliban bomb-making class. Thirty militants (including six foreigners) were killed, and an unknown number were injured. [141]
In Utah, simple possession of a dry ice bomb or similar pressurized chemical reaction bomb is a second-degree felony. [16] In Colorado, the creation of a dry ice bomb is considered illegal due to interpretation as "possession of an explosive device" [citation needed] Leaving an unexploded dry ice bomb can be construed as public endangerment.
A typical specification for heavy civil defence shelter in Europe during the Cold war was an overhead explosion of a 500 kiloton weapon at the height of 500 meters. Such a weapon would be used to attack soft targets (factories, administrative centres, communications) in the area.
RDS-6s (Russian: РДС-6с, from the Soviet codename for their atomic bombs Russian: Реактивный Двигатель Специальный, lit. 'special jet engine'; American codename: Joe 4) was the first Soviet attempted test of a thermonuclear weapon that occurred on August 12, 1953, that detonated with a force equivalent to 400 kilotons of TNT.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. “No one knows what the heck caused it,” Langford told the Chicago Sun-Times. A bomb squad was called in to assist, as were agents from the ...
Primary views of an R-7 Semyorka, the world's first ICBM and satellite launch vehicle. The first practical design for an ICBM grew out of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program. . The liquid-fueled V-2, designed by Wernher von Braun and his team, was then widely used by Nazi Germany from mid-1944 until March 1945 to bomb British and Belgian cities, particularly Antwerp and Lond
A man convicted of plotting to blow up a Chicago bar will have to spend another 11 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly resentenced Adel Daoud to 27 years in prison on Friday, the ...