• Bomb is an Indian village in Dera Baba Nanak, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India. 31°55′59″N 75°01′48″E / 31.933°N 75.030°E / 31.933; 75.030 v t e 1...
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  • Look up bomb, bombed, bomber, or bombing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bomb is an explosive device. Bomb or its variants may also refer to: Box-office...
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    Nuclear weapon (redirect from Atomic bomb)
    fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large...
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    crowded places. Nail bombs can be detected by electromagnetic sensors and standard metal detectors. On 6 March 1970, in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion...
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  • ˈbombə], lit. 'Tsar bomb'; code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful...
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    Thermonuclear weapon (redirect from H-bomb)
    A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly...
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    covers a floor. Carpet bombing is usually achieved by dropping many unguided bombs. Carpet bombing of cities, towns, villages, or other areas containing...
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    Toss bombing (sometimes known as loft bombing, and by the U.S. Air Force as the Low Altitude Bombing System, or LABS) is a method of bombing where the...
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    A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas,...
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  • 2000, 34-year-old Liu Zhanjin committed a suicide bombing at a wedding ceremony in Shajian Village, Shuozhou, Shanxi, China, which killed 39 people and...
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    April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco...
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    The Bomb, Medium Capacity, 22,000 lb (Grand Slam) was a 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) earthquake bomb used by RAF Bomber Command against German targets towards...
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    An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional...
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    A general-purpose bomb is an air-dropped bomb intended as a compromise between blast damage, penetration, and fragmentation in explosive effect. They...
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  • Riyadh—Dorrat Al Jadawel, Al Hamra Oasis Village, and the Vinnell Corporation Compound. On 8 November, a bomb was detonated outside the Al-Mohaya housing...
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  • breaks through Alan's defenses, revealing the bomb. The other children look at the clock, and the bomb explodes, killing everyone inside, including Alan...
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    Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over a thousand compartments...
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    Design Bureau for converting unguided Soviet bombs into precision-guided munitions. This kit is an aerial bomb glide range extension kit, similar to the...
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    A barrel bomb is an improvised unguided bomb, sometimes described as a flying IED (improvised explosive device). They are typically made from a large...
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  • includes various bomb attacks and other politically driven violent incidents. 1867 13 December 1867: "Clerkenwell Outrage": A bomb planted by Fenians...
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  • How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was released on 22 November 2004 in the United Kingdom by Island...
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    Y1 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs, all of which fell to the surface. Three were found on land near the small fishing village of Palomares in Almería, Spain...
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  • A barrel bomb is a type of improvised explosive device used extensively by the Syrian Air Force during the Syrian civil war. They are usually made from...
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  • This is a list of notable bombings related to the Northern Ireland "Troubles" and their aftermath. It includes bombings that took place in Northern Ireland...
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  • The proxy bomb, also known as a human bomb, is a tactic that was used mainly by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland during...
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    Promotion Hall, and now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome (原爆ドーム, Genbaku Dōmu), is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial...
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    strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
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    with jellied oil and dropped in clusters of 36 in the non-aerodynamic M19 bomb. Over Japan they were used in clusters of 38 as part of the finned E-46 'aimable...
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    bombing". BBC News. BBC. 23 February 2011. "Iran charged over Argentina bomb". 2006-10-25. Retrieved 2023-04-04. "A Deadly Conspiracy in Buenos Aires...
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    The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also referred to as 7/7, were a series of four co-ordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted...
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