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    “Alright, you can turn back now,” the voice crackled over the radio.            “Roger that,” I responded and I turned the jet back towards the Yokosuka air base. I marveled over the miles of land between Tokyo and Yokosuka City. The cherry blossom trees spread like one giant flower beneath me as I approached the air base. Nearing the landing, the plane began to slow down. I pulled up on the yoke of the plane, just barely avoiding a possible nosedive into the asphalt below. The underbelly of the

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    “The Boston Marathon bombing terrorist attack that took place a short distance from the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. A pair of homemade bombs detonated in the crowd watching the race, killing 3 people and injuring more than 260” (Boston Marathon Bombing). Many people were hurt, physically or mentally, by this attack. Because of this the bombing lead to the all out lockdown and manhunt in the boston area. The act of terrorism committed by the Tsarnaev brothers will forever

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    Through the course of the Second World War, Germany partook in numerous courses of research and development of weapons systems and platforms that were believed that they could help win the war more quickly and later hopefully turn the tide of the war. Of these the more ambitious and advanced attempts without doubt were the projects dubbed as Germany’s Wunderwaffen, or “Wonder Weapons”, by the nation’s Propaganda network. Several of these projects proved instrumental to advancement of many people

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    Normandy and the Russians approaching from the East. However, because of the unreliability of bomber commands performance the Nazis managed to quickly control the situation. They ensured that no photographs or news reports were published from the bomb stricken reports meaning that the rest of Germany could only gather information from stories and tales. On top of this only a small part of Germany was bombed as the allied forces simply did not have the technology to reach the majority of the Reich

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    Robots And Robotics

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    soldiers on the battlefield: robots. These metal bodies are not the only elements that will potentially become part of the military; advanced bombs and flying drones are also working their way into the picture. Why would the military want to take these steps towards a futuristic and metallic future? Exponential advances in technology such as robots, bombs and drones, could significantly decrease and even eliminate soldiers involved in direct combat, resulting in improved health and military costs

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    Peenemunde Research Paper

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    beginning of the V-Weapons program, and have been around in one way or another for over 70 years, indeed the advent of modern missile technology has changed the face of modern warfare and politics, and coupled with the advent of the two-stage hydrogen bomb, they have now brought humanity the closest to another World-War. Ballistic missile development, proliferation, and usage have had one of the largest and most profound impacts on modern warfare and international politics. On the cold and misty morning

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    world war two pilot. His plane was a b-24 liberator “the super man” it was a very buggy plane ;the bomb hatch door wouldn't always close and the engines were so sensitive that if a leaf went in the engine it would explode. One of the men would call it a flying coffin. As cramped as it was it had a nose gunner, a ball turret gunner on the bottom , a tail gunner, two waist gunners on each side and a bomb bay in the middle. Malfunctions were the worst enemy of the b-24’s. The super man had recorded some

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    him. During the scuffle, the bomber sprang into action. According to S. Sherazi, "Teen dies stopping suicide bomber at school in Pakistan, Teen dies while stopping suicide bomber, CNN.com, "The other students backed off, panicked and detonated his bomb." During this tragic event, it took the courageous acts of a young man to step in and put a stop to what he thought was wrong, believing in it so much he gave his life up for his fellow students. Were the acts of the Aitazaz courageous? What about

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    Tick…BOOM!” One of the most lethal and disastrous bombs our world obtains, corruption. A fist of an orange and blood-red flame punches its way out of the shell, smoke and varicolored fire rushing out, while the corpses of innocent lives, lay on the cold-stone ground helplessly, paying the insolent price of conformity. For every tick of the bomb, a defenseless and innocent life is sacrificed. There is only a transient amount of time we have to defuse the bomb, until it explodes, obliterating society as

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    himself trapped in his office and forced to remain seated in a chair wired by a bomb. If he stands up, the bomb goes off. The hero is forced to hack his way into a complicated mainframe to open a vault for a mysterious assailant. To raise the stakes, his family is

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