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The Hiroshima Maidens (Japanese: 原爆乙女 (Genbaku Otome); lit. ' atomic bomb maidens ') were a group of 25 Japanese women who were disfigured by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and subsequently went on a highly publicized journey to obtain reconstructive surgery in the United States.
Caleb Williams is celebrating a special someone!. The Chicago Bears quarterback marked one year with girlfriend Alina Thyregod by posting a carousel of photos of the two to his Instagram Stories ...
In preparation for dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Oppenheimer-led Scientific Panel of the Interim Committee decided against a demonstration bomb and against a special leaflet warning. Those decisions were implemented because of the uncertainty of a successful detonation and also because of the wish to maximize shock in the leadership ...
Reportedly about 388,000 tons of US napalm bombs were dropped in the region between 1963 and 1973, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. [17] [18] Incendiary bombs used in the late 20th century sometimes contained thermite, made from aluminium and ferric oxide. It takes very ...
An American aircraft drops napalm on Viet Cong positions in 1965. A German World War II incendiary bomb remnant. Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Initial calls to 9-1-1 indicated that an "older white male" entered the clinic with a handgun, saying that bombs were in the clinic and demanding that law enforcement back off. [5] Among the dozen or so calls that operators from the 9-1-1 system answered, one was by the gunman himself, at 10:58 a.m. [ 1 ] He told the operator to "send a lotta ...
Television guidance (TGM) is a type of missile guidance system using a television camera in the missile or glide bomb that sends its signal back to the launch platform. There, a weapons officer or bomb aimer watches the image on a television screen and sends corrections to the missile, typically over a radio control link.