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  2. Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing - Wikipedia

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    The bomb, one of the largest the FBI had ever seen, was loaded with an estimated 1,000 lb (450 kg) of dynamite stolen from a construction site in Fresno, California. According to FBI experts, the Harvey's bomb remains the most complex improvised explosive device they have examined, and a replica of "the machine", as the extortionists called it ...

  3. List of artillery video games - Wikipedia

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    You control planes (hi/lo) which can bomb the place in diagonals. The side of bombing changes when the planes passes the middle of the screen.The goal is to dig the mountain with bombs, so the underground facility of missiles detonate. loads of similarity with the future "Worms" game, but much more real time bombing.

  4. List of controversial video games - Wikipedia

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    An uncompleted mod for Half-Life 2 hosted by Mod DB, School Shooter was condemned in the mainstream media and within industry publications for making a violent video game where the protagonist is a school shooter who kills defenseless targets. [175] [176] [177] In response to the controversy, Mod DB pulled the game from its website. [178] 2011 ...

  5. Norden bombsight - Wikipedia

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    The main targets were railroad marshaling yards (27.4% of the bomb tonnage dropped), airfields (11.6%), oil refineries (9.5%), and military installations (8.8%). [42] To some degree, the targets themselves were secondary; Doolittle used the bombers as an irresistible target to draw up Luftwaffe fighters into the ever-increasing swarms of Allied ...

  6. Philadelphia teen hoped to make bombs for terror group and ...

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    “The defendant, who had a scholarship to attend college as a wrestler, decided that he wanted to become a bomb-maker,” said Listenbee. “He wanted to leave America and go to Syria an join a ...

  7. United States hand grenades - Wikipedia

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    The Mod 1 probably featured an improved type fuze, moving away from the simple wick lighter design. The Mod 2 featured a simplified overall design, while the Mod 3 replaced the single-piece steel body with a two-piece plastic shell.

  8. Nuclear weapon design - Wikipedia

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    The first nuclear explosive devices provided the basic building blocks of future weapons. Pictured is the Gadget device being prepared for the Trinity nuclear test.. Nuclear weapons design are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package [1] of a nuclear weapon to detonate.

  9. GBU-57A/B MOP - Wikipedia

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    The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) "bunker buster" bomb used by the United States Air Force. [2] The GBU-57 (Guided Bomb Unit-57) is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37.