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Tiến lên ( Vietnamese: tiến lên, tiến: advance; lên: to go up, up; literally: "go forward"; also Romanized Tien Len) is a shedding -type card game originating in Vietnam. [ 1] It may be considered Vietnam's national card game, and is also played in the United States, sometimes under the names Viet Cong, [ 2] VC, [ 2] Thirteen, [ 2 ...
Bomb carriers can be thought of as wearing suicide vests. Beirut chess is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1992. [ 1][ 2] The game is played using the standard chess pieces and board, with each side having secretly equipped one of their men with a "bomb"—which can be "detonated" at any time, wiping out all men on surrounding squares ...
Substantial debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 respectively at the close of World War II (1939–45). On 26 July 1945 at the Potsdam Conference, United States President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President ...
A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, [ 1] is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive. [ 2][ 3] The fuel is usually a single compound, rather than a mixture of multiple molecules. [ 4] Many types of thermobaric weapons can be fitted to hand-held ...
0. The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a night practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the large weapon.
Search teams looking for missing British teenager Jay Slater on the Spanish island of Tenerife have found the body of a young man.
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A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb ( H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a lower mass, or a combination of these benefits. Characteristics of nuclear fusion reactions make ...