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  • Thumbnail for Bomb
    Look up bomb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an...
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    Explosive cyclogenesis (also referred to as a weather bomb, meteorological bomb, explosive development, bomb cyclone, or bombogenesis) is the rapid deepening...
    16 KB (1,554 words) - 17:36, 17 October 2024
  • Bombed Out is Angelic Upstarts's ninth album, released in 1992. All tracks composed by Thomas Mensforth and Ray Cowie Side A "Red till Death" "Albert's...
    1 KB (97 words) - 10:25, 25 September 2024
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    St Luke's Church, more commonly known by locals as the bombed-out church, is a former Anglican parish church in Liverpool, England. It stands on the corner...
    17 KB (1,664 words) - 13:34, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1973 Old Bailey bombing
    The 1973 Old Bailey bombing (dubbed as Bloody Thursday by newspapers in Britain) was a car bomb attack carried out by the Provisional IRA (IRA) which took...
    17 KB (2,010 words) - 21:36, 16 November 2024
  • In computing, a zip bomb, also known as a decompression bomb or zip of death (ZOD), is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the...
    4 KB (455 words) - 23:50, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000...
    221 KB (25,443 words) - 02:58, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Car bomb
    A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive...
    48 KB (5,531 words) - 16:55, 28 October 2024
  • A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron...
    63 KB (6,667 words) - 01:03, 3 November 2024
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    leading to the natives abandoning the island. After the United States captured Guadalcanal, they were able to use the airfield to bomb out the Japanese...
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  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (known simply and more commonly as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 political satire black...
    85 KB (9,090 words) - 02:13, 18 November 2024
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    Nuclear weapon (redirect from Atomic bomb)
    fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large...
    116 KB (13,252 words) - 00:49, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bomb vessel
    A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons (long guns or carronades)...
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  • Thumbnail for Letter bomb
    A letter bomb is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened. They have...
    25 KB (2,641 words) - 10:54, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Improvised explosive device
    as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs, or homemade bombs. The term "IED" was coined by the...
    97 KB (9,641 words) - 19:16, 12 November 2024
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    Thermonuclear weapon (redirect from H-bomb)
    A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly...
    99 KB (11,605 words) - 11:39, 7 November 2024
  • ˈbombə], lit. 'Tsar bomb'; code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful...
    62 KB (7,238 words) - 00:28, 18 November 2024
  • "Gay bomb" is an informal term referring to a hypothetical non-lethal psychochemical weapon about which the United States Air Force speculated. The unconventional...
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  • Thumbnail for Bloody Friday (1972)
    Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the...
    34 KB (4,539 words) - 01:51, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bouncing bomb
    bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both...
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