2-word term for the 30,000-pound precision-guided bombs used to destroy underground command centers
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Covert action in Colombia | The Washington Post  Dec 21, 2013 ... The covert program in Colombia provides two essential services to the ... Smart bombs, also called precision-guided munitions or PGMs, are .... Operations Command (JSOC) to provide support to the years-long hunt ..... They helped make sense of the NSA's voice intercepts, which often used code words.
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GBU-28 - Wikipedia  The Guided Bomb Unit 28 (GBU-28) is a 5,000-pound (2,268 kg) laser-guided "bunker busting" ... Used by, United States, Israel, South Korea ... Only two of the weapons were dropped in Desert Storm, both by F-111Fs. ... Planners noticed that a few command and control bunkers in Baghdad were located deep underground...
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U.S. Bombing - The Myth of Surgical Bombing in the Gulf War  A select number of the successful ones with laser-guided bombs were portrayed ... bloodless, pushbutton battle in which only military targets were assumed destroyed. ... and some 30,000 to 50,000 against Iraqi forces in southern Iraq and Kuwait. ... GBU-12 Paveway II, a 500 pound laser-guided bomb, used against tanks,...
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Bunker buster - Wikipedia  A bunker buster is a type of bomb that is designed to penetrate hardened targets or targets buried deep underground, ... The British Disney bomb (officially "4500 lb Concrete Piercing/Rocket Assisted bomb") was a ... a 12,000-pound bomb deployed in the Korean War against an underground command center near Kanggye.
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Guidance and control for bunker-busting munitions - Military ...  Aug 5, 2013 ... The trick for effective bunker-busting bombs is to enable the munition to ... superior anti-bunker munitions, has been to build such underground centers ... upgraded guidance systems to improve precision and allow B-2 and B-52H .... a GBU-28 bunker-busting, 5,000-pound laser-guided bomb over the Utah...
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Anti-aircraft warfare - Wikipedia  Anti-aircraft missiles are variously called surface-to-air missile, abbreviated and pronounced "SAM" and Surface to Air Guided Weapon (SAGW). Non-English...
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The Blitz - Wikipedia  The Blitz, from the German word 'Blitzkrieg' meaning 'lightning war', was the name borrowed by the British press and applied to the heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. This concentrated, direct bombing of industrial targets and civilian centres ... More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged and...
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thermonuclear bomb | fusion device | Britannica.com  Thermonuclear bomb, also called hydrogen bomb, or H-bomb, weapon whose ... a small portion of their mass (about 0.63 percent) in order to fit together in a single ... The energy thus produced forms the explosive power of a hydrogen bomb. ... thus producing much less blast but a lethal enhanced radiation of neutrons.
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The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb | US History II (OS ...  Discuss the strategy employed against the Japanese and some of the significant ... over one mile and secondary effects would include fire damage, a compact city of ... The so-called Genbaku (A-Bomb) Dome, now the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, was the only building left standing near the Hiroshima bomb's hypocenter (b).
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USS Cole bombing - Wikipedia  The USS Cole bombing was a terrorist attack against the United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) on 12 October 2000, ... of the key planners of the attack and had been in the country at the time of the attacks. ..... The USS Cole bombing plays a highly visible role in Navy damage-control training,...
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Warhead - definition of warhead by The Free Dictionary  the forward section of a missile, bomb, torpedo, or the like, containing the explosive or payload. [18951900]. Random House Kernerman Webster's College...
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csis track-ii dialogue on limiting non-strategic nuclear weapons  Sep 4, 2015 ... Over a longer horizon, many of the activities that were conducted .... systems, naval nuclear weapons, and short-range systems. Russian short-range, tactical nuclear weapons number about 2,000, but fewer than 500 tactical nuclear ..... the potential for conflict and use of NSNW or SNW in a future conflict?
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Words - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Catapult Also called onagers, the largest one could throw a missile weighing 60 lbs. a distance of 500 yards. Claymore It's what you'd be looking at if a...
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J! Archive - Show #4707, aired 2005-02-08  (Alex: Each correct response will be two words, but by adding one letter, the words will .... We dig this word, a synonym of "trench" & "abandon"...
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Combat engineer - encyclopedia article - Citizendium  May 31, 2009 ... ... fortifications and sieges, and refers to digging under fortifications, ... the Engineers and the Seabees is "first we dig 'em, then we die in 'em".
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The Biggest Bomb In the History of the World - Gizmodo  Jan 23, 2013 ... Big Ivan, better known as Tsar Bomba, was 57 Megatons of Soviet might. ... One explosion. ... spectacular" setting off the largest man-made explosion of all time? ... the largest hydrogen bomb the Soviets had detonated was the puny 3 ... These lead tampers cut the bomb's yield by 50 percent but they also...
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Improvised explosive device - Wikipedia  An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than .... A vehicle-borne IED, or VBIED, is a military term for a car bomb or truck bomb but can be any type of ..... Suicide bombing usually refers to an individual wearing explosives and detonating them in order to kill others including...
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US Nuclear Target Map | Modern Survival Blog  Mar 18, 2015 ... The nuclear target and fallout maps shown below are in the public domain. ... The primary targets will likely be military installations, while a secondary ... far from a direct hit while also being away from upstream prevailing winds). ..... uses scram/ram jet tech as a nuke payload delivery package  other than...
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White House Tunnel System and Underground Command Center  White House Tunnel System: West Wing Underground Command Bunker Project ... While some officials in federal government agencies sought access to this secret ... The new underground command center serves two purposes: 1) To protect key .... Access to the PEOC is by an elevator located behind multiple vault-type...
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