Aug 31
Forget secret NSA spying, the National Guard up and dropped an inert practice bomb into a Maryland bar parking lot Thursday night.
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Aug 05
ABC News is reporting that al Qaeda has come up with a "new generation of liquid explosives" for a potential attack. The scary thing is that the bomb "would not be detected by current security measures". Even scarier is that a US official called the new method "ingenious". Well, then.
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Apr 16
Boston Marathon Bombings Cause Disruption Of Cell Service Due To Call Spike
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Yesterday’s Boston Marathon was ended prematurely as two bombs were set off close to the race’s finish line, injuring over a hundred people and killing three as of this writing. But at the height of the chaos, a number of reports claimed cellphone service was shut down by law enforcement as a way to ensure additional bombs wouldn’t be set off, which turns out to have been false according to a number of wireless carriers.
According to wireless carriers Sprint, AT&T and Verizon, cell phone usage within the area during the bombing spiked, which resulted in a disruption of service. “Verizon Wireless has not been asked by any government agency to turn down its wireless service. Any reports to that effect are inaccurate,” said a spokesperson for Verizon Wireless. Both Sprint and AT&T have also reassured the public the disruptions its customers experienced yesterday was also due to an increase of calls, not due an order to cut communications. (more…)
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Apr 08
Of all the food related items or household goods that you could use to pretend to be a bomb, spaghetti sauce has to be pretty low on the list. Not to a 60-year-old woman near Detroit though, she used spaghetti sauce to rob an entire bank. And she got away. More »
Mar 28
North Korea Is Putting Its Rockets on Standby for Fire After the US Made a Show of Force with Stealth Bombers
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According to Reuters, North Korea has readied its rockets to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific Ocean after the US made a show of force earlier today by flying stealth bombers over South Korea. Kim Jong Un had apparently signed off an order for North Korea’s rockets to be “on standby for fire”. More »
Mar 27
A Chinese fishmonger was going about his business when he randomly discovered a bomb… inside the stomach of a squid he was gutting. Apparently, a three-pound squid had swallowed an eight-inch bomb on accident. The bomb was live. More »
Feb 11
North Korea Might Have Just Tested a Nuclear Bomb (Update: North Korea Confirms)
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This isn’t good. North Korea has reportedly conducted a nuclear test. Unusual seismic activity in the region was detected that indicated a nuclear bomb and South Korea has told a United Nations Security Council diplomat that North Korea performed a nuclear test. More »
Dec 28
On July 16, 1945, the US Army destroyed a small part of New Mexico by testing the first nuclear bomb in human history, the most powerful weapon of all time. It then proceeded to blow up 1,054 more. More »
Dec 10
Here’s a Map of All the Places London Got Bombed During the Blitz (Spoiler: Everywhere)
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Previously only available for viewing at England’s National Archives, the 1940 census which documented every single bomb dropped on London from October 7th 1940 to June 6th 1941 is now accessible via an interactive website called Bomb Sight. And for those of us who’ve only ever read about the Blitz in history books, it’s a shocking look at what exactly the city of London endured during World War II. More »
Nov 27
Sure, explosions in cinema are great—they propel cars over otherwise impassable chasms and give heroes something to resolutely walk away from. In real life, explosions of any appreciable size are terrifyingly deadly. This is what really happens when you’re too close to the blast. More »
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