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...Furman was appointed to head the first atomic-intelligence effort and was soon able to report that the Germans had not gotten very far in building a bomb. Two years later, he accompanied Little Boy's uranium core from Los Alamos, N.M., to Tinian Island and watched the Enola Gay take off on Aug. 6, 1945, with its historic payload...
JESSICA SIMPSON'S Major Movie Star No. 1 at Russian box office. Moscow threatens to respond with bomb...
...suicide bombing that rocked Kabul on Wednesday was but the latest outrage in a fresh wave of violence that began on October 20 with the shooting death of a British charity worker, followed by the assassination of two western DHL employees less than a week later. The bomb attack on the Ministry of Culture and Information, not far from the presidential palace, appears to have targeted the ministry's foreign advisers, according to the Taliban spokesman who claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of his organization in an interview with the Associated Press. Three attackers rushed the gate...
...long troubled northeastern corner of India is seeing an escalation of violence even as the rest of the country contends with a series of terror bombings over the last few weeks. On Thursday, a series of co-ordinated bomb blasts in the Indian state of Assam - nine of them detonated in four cities in the span of 15 minutes - killed at 61 people and injured at least 300. The question now is whether the perpetrators of the attacks were regional separatists or a wider network of radical jihadists...
...might sound like good news that so much opium has disappeared from the world drug market, but Costa believes the missing opium is a potential time bomb, and many law-enforcement officials agree. That's because the Taliban is believed to be "stockpiling to control the prices," says a spokesman for Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency, who confirmed that NATO forces have uncovered Taliban stockpiles of opium. Despite the bumper opium harvests, the street price of heroin remains a costly $67 per g in European cities, and the price Afghan farmers charge for their opium has remained about...