Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't just older, cheaper planes that won over Kosovo. The real star of the show was a new but very cheap bomb. While the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a pretty low-tech weapon, its satellite-guided tail fins let a plane at any altitude drop it right on target through clouds, smoke or darkness. At about $20,000 a pop, it's far cheaper than the $1 million cruise missile that has been the precision-guided weapon of choice for the past decade. "Once you get the air defenses suppressed, you can just fly over and puke...
There are many theories and debates on whether the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was in fact a mistake. If Americans had been killed in a bomb attack on the U.S. embassy, all hell would have broken loose. Do the politicians really expect the Chinese just to forgive NATO for what happened? I do not believe in an eye for an eye, but by not fully apologizing right away, the U.S. hurt its own people who are expatriates living in China. MEI OSAN Scarborough...
...demonstrated physics experiments--"miracles I could understand"--to him as a child. At Moscow University in the 1940s, Sakharov was tabbed as one of the U.S.S.R.'s brightest young minds. After earning his doctorate, he was sent to a top-secret installation to spearhead the development of the hydrogen bomb. By 1953 the Soviets had detonated one. It was "the most terrible weapon in human history," Sakharov later wrote. Yet he felt that by building the H-bomb, "I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power...
...deciding match was knotted at two entering the third period, with junior defenseman Matt Scorsune getting the equalizer on a bomb from the point late in the second. Jonas gave his team every chance to win in the last frame, making 10 mostly spectacular saves. But two costly defensive mistakes ended Harvard's season...
...Fogg Museum prepares for bomb attack...