Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perception was reinforced when Yale missed an open receiver on a bomb on its first possession. Three possessions later, even after a personal foul extended a Yale drive, the Bulldogs were stuffed twice on second-and-one at the Harvard fiveyard line...
...nuclear weapons, according to a Defense Department official. Unlike chemical and nuclear weapons, which require elaborate industrial facilities and make relatively easy targets, biological agents can be produced in a place the size of a two-room apartment. "There's no way we can find and bomb them all," says the source. But where it suspects the weapons of mass destruction are being produced or stored, the Pentagon will try out prototype weapons designed to "defeat nuclear-biological-chemical threats before they can be used," as a 1995 report phrased it. One penetrating warhead burrows through earth and concrete before...
...merging of the output from a government's arsenals, like Saddam's biological weapons, with a group of semi-independent terrorists, like radical Islamist groups, who might slip such bioweapons into the U.S. and use them. It wouldn't take much. This is the poor man's atom bomb. A gram of anthrax culture contains a trillion spores, theoretically enough for 100 million fatal doses. The stuff can be spread into the air with backpack sprayers or even perfume atomizers. The U.N.'s specialists say that 100 lbs. of anthrax bacteria sprayed around a city of 1 million could kill...
...late New York Times correspondent C.L. Sulzberger and photographs culled from international archives. It was an elegant memorial to the war's unimaginable destruction, anguish and fortitude. Ambrose furthers that tragic sense in his revision, which includes updated material on code breaking, Japanese war crimes and Hitler's atom-bomb project...
...didn't always pick the most technically perfect versions, just the ones that best captured the energy of the band. His meticulousness has paid off. "Stop" and "Ain't No Right" are scorchers. The classic "Jane Says" gets a new treatment and wears it nicely. The 12-minute sonic bomb "Three Days" shows just why Jane's Addiction never failed to tear up a stage. Eric and Stephen play as if they were controlled by a single mind, Dave alternately soothes and destroys with absolutely stellar guitar work and Perry sings his guts out, as always. The most ferocious recording...