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Remember the 1989 power outage in the surrounding areas of Quebec, Canada, that left about six million people without power for nine hours? Well, the phenomenon itself wasn't determined by an electromagnetic pulse bomb, but by a powerful geomagnetic storm triggered by the solar activity. Nevertheless, both produ... |
5 July 2008
07:12 GMT |
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About a week ago, the Google Webmaster's Guild (ok, Blog, but it sounds like a secret organization) brought back into attention the Googlebombs, saying that they have been defused after a prolonged and sustained effort from their dev team. The algorithm they came up with actually works… some of the times.Not fam... |
30 January 2008
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In a long continuous string of "things that people who have done something bad and consider themselves untouchable because they didn't get caught doing it" happenings, here's the latest: yesterday an AIDS fundraiser was cancelled and a huge part of a street was blocked after a bomb was spotted. It turned ou... |
29 November 2007
10:01 GMT |
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Explosives like urea nitrate are like cocaine or heroine: they leave traces. Urea nitrate is an extremely powerful home made explosive, often used by Palestinian terrorists on their explosive belts in Israel, and was also the material employed in the first World Trade Center bombing in New York in 1993. It can be pr... |
2 November 2007
05:53 GMT |
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You may not be eager to blow yourself up to "get" 72 virgins, while murdering tens of innocent people around you. But others will do it, in the name of religion, justice and so on. A recent computer simulation has assessed just how the crowd's behavior influences the number of victims a pedestrian suicide bomber... |
31 October 2007
07:38 GMT |
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Danger Room reports Taiwan is secretly working on a blackout bomb designed to...well… wipe out China's electrical system. The news was also in United Daily News, which claimed Taiwan is working hard on a graphite bomb, similar to the one used by the US Army troops in Serbia.Taiwannews detailed the original repor... |
24 October 2007
05:37 GMT |
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The police officers from Stark County, Ohio started an investigation over a YouTube video which was uploaded by an unknown person and showed gas bombs creation tutorials to all the visitors of the clip. WKYC-TV reports that the Police thinks the clip was created by some teenagers who gave them the idea to verify the ... |
1 October 2007
10:18 GMT |
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If the MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Burst) is the "mother of all bombs", the newly tested Russian bomb is the "father of all bombs". The Russian air force has just tested a huge fuel-air bomb which is the biggest non-nuclear explosive device ever produced. A Tupolev-160 "Blackjack" supersonic bomber dropped the bomb ov... |
13 September 2007
06:51 GMT |
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Following the recent efforts of the authorities from all around the world to stop the malicious use of the Internet in order to conduct terrorist attacks, the European Union is also getting involved in the matter and plans to impose new restrictions soon. Reuters reports that EU Justice and Security Commissioner Fran... |
11 September 2007
05:29 GMT |
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A site's content has alarmed US policemen that took immediate measures, just in case the news was true. The site, debka.com, stated that there is soon going to be a terrorist attack in either Miami, New York or perhaps Los Angeles. They were also giving information about how the attack was going to be like - the... |
16 August 2007
10:53 GMT |
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A 66-year-old woman has been held for questioning for about three hours in a US airport, after the chunk of cheese that she had in one of her bags had been mistaken for a bomb. It is a shame that with all the invested money and all the new technologies, security experts still can't tell between a dairy product ... |
15 August 2007
10:37 GMT |
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The FBI federal agents decided to install a spyware file on the computer owned by a MySpace registered member in order to find private information and arrest him for bomb threats concerning a high school in Olympia, Wash, ZDNet reports. According to the same source, the FBI required the court approval that agreed to ... |
19 July 2007
10:29 GMT |
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When is a bomb actually not a bomb? When it's made of multiple charges that increase the target area proportionally to deliver devastating damage with only one initial charge. When it comes to multiple warheads, nothing beats the US Air Force's CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon.Cluster bombs, which deliver multip... |
17 July 2007
10:59 GMT |
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Sometimes the suicide bombers have more noble intentions than 72 virgins. They can save the whole colony, like in the case of the cabbage aphids that have developed a type of mustard oil "bomb" that helps them keep the predators away, as revealed by a new research. This is the first time when aphids have been found t... |
12 July 2007
05:13 GMT |
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Smart bombs are guided projectiles that are designed to deliver maximum damage to the target while minimizing both collateral damage and the risk of being intercepted by the enemy. The smartest ones allow a fighter pilot, for instance, to designate a target, fire and forget about the bomb, which will head straight t... |
10 July 2007
10:07 GMT |
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It's called MOAB Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or GBU-43/B, but the most familiar description is Mother Of All Bombs. This is truly the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed and is only delivered by a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the main tactical carrier for many military forces worldwide. The result of a t... |
29 June 2007
11:22 GMT |
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A thermobaric bomb is an unusual type of explosive, that doesn't incorporate oxygen molecules, thus requiring atmospheric oxygen. Sometimes called fuel-air explosives, the name comes from Greek and literally means "heat" and "pressure."The most interesting thing about this bomb is the fact that it actually prod... |
26 June 2007
11:23 GMT |
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An explosion is a sudden increase in volume and release of energy in a violent manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. Well, that's nice to know, but what are the most effective explosives, besides the nuclear bomb?TNTTrinitrotoluene is best known as a useful explosive... |
23 June 2007
07:15 GMT |
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The Americans response to Saddam's mass destruction chemical weapons would have been sexual! Documents achieved under freedom of information laws in the United States have confirmed that the country's military took into consideration the development of a "gay bomb."In 1994, the US Air Force research departm... |
14 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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On August 6, 1945, a uranium-based weapon, "Little Boy", was released over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a plutonium-based weapon, "Fat Man", was dropped onto the city of Nagasaki. They were the first (and only) nuclear attacks in history.Officially, the first nuclear test - code-named "Trinity" -... |
11 June 2007
11:06 GMT |
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TNT is the abbreviation for Trinitrotoluene, a highly explosive chemical compound, best known for its convenient handling properties. Its explosive yield is considered the standard measure of strength of bombs and other explosives.It is a common misconception that TNT and dynamite are the same applications, or that... |
5 June 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The "failure" Googlebomb is surely the most famous prank ever made to the best search engine on the Internet because it appeared for multiple times although the Mountain View company tried to stop it. Some time ago, the search giant sustained that Google was working on a powerful technology to stop all the bombs even... |
5 June 2007
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An incendiary bomb is used to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using materials such as napalm, thermite, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus. Napalm is the most known incendiary material, although the name is improperly used to describe the incendiary substance itself, when in fact it's only the... |
4 June 2007
11:17 GMT |
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It's hard to believe, but New Zealanders are the most likely to search for bomb making recipes on the Internet, in the whole world. That's what a leading counter-terrorism expert said at a security conference in Sydney yesterday.They use the most popular internet search engine, Google, to learn how to make... |
4 June 2007
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Astronomers have obtained a new image showing another evidence of the heavy bombardment the Moon was subjected to. It's a picture of Oresme, a crater located at the South Pole of the Moon, on the far side, at 42.3° South and 169° East, having a diameter of 76 kilometers, measured from north to south.It has a cr... |
19 May 2007
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It may be the dream come true for conspiracy theory adepts in the JFK assassination. Using 21st century science, the FBI has performed a new analysis of the remains of the bullet that was used by the US government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963.A res... |
18 May 2007
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Plutonium is a radioactive, metallic chemical element, and has been called "the most complex metal" and "a physicist's dream but an engineer's nightmare" for its peculiar physical and chemical properties.It is the element used in most modern nuclear weapons and power plants, and contrary to popular beliefs... |
5 April 2007
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3,235 dead. 24,187 wounded in action, of which 10,772 were unable to return to duty within 72 hours. 6,835 non-hostile injuries and 18,704 diseases (both requiring medical air transport).As of 24 March, 2007, this is the number of casualties in the ranks of the U.S. Armed forces in Iraq since the beginning of the wa... |
30 March 2007
10:16 GMT |
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If you didn't know, Google is now ranking the websites using a simple algorithm that calculates the number of the pages linking to a certain site. This procedure is also used by attackers aiming to create Googlebombs because they are able to create fake results using numerous links placed on other websites on th... |
19 March 2007
04:06 GMT |
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The basic idea behind body armor hasn't changed very much for the past few thousands years.The main purpose of the armor is to stop weapons or projectiles from penetrating a person's body and to diffuse the weapon's impulse energy, so that the final impact causes little or no damage at all.Although not... |
16 March 2007
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