Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initial Soviet H-bombs would create powerful shock waves (throwing warhead guidance systems off course), searing temperatures (high enough on the periphery of the fireball to incinerate other warheads) and a flood of radiation (highenergy gamma and X rays, plus neutrons, which would wreck a warhead's electronics). The blast would also produce the deadly vacuum characteristic of all thermonuclear explosions, destroying almost all the atmosphere in an incoming warhead's path and effectively ending its maneuvering ability. Any warheads surviving these multiple perils would probably be burned up by frictional heat as they plunged earthward at more...
Offers of aid flood the Texas site, but some campers spurn them...
...charging that the code had driven up advertising costs by restricting the supply of air time for commercials. Last week U.S. District Court Judge Harold H. Greene signed a consent decree under which the N.A.B. and Justice agreed to eliminate the restraints. Now, theoretically at least, station owners can flood the air with commericals...
...images revealed stream channels, broad flood plains and what millenniums ago had been great river valleys, some as wide as those of the Nile. Though a few experts speculate that the ancient and modern water systems were once connected, there is no supporting evidence. In fact, says McCauley, "the trending of the [ancient] rivers is to the south and west, the opposite of the present-day movement. It is possible they all joined up to one large basin of interior drainage as large as the Caspian...
...launchers dot the eerie landscape, each hunkered down behind its own earth revetment. If the Iranians attempted to move toward Amara, they would invite the same decimation that they received in five full-scale attacks last summer, when wave upon wave of poorly trained Islamic Guards rushed across the flood plain of the Shatt al Arab toward Basra...