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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HARM At least 1,000 of the creepy-sounding air-to-surface anti-radiation missiles helped deafen Iraq's air-defense radar system Cost: $200,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Only one of the hijackers' homemade grenades went off, doing little damage. The gendarmes countered with concussion grenades, which temporarily deafen and blind, allowing them to burst into the cockpit and shoot down the terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Anatomy of a Hijack | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...Ocean Boom Boxes: A project may deafen some whales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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