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Were Oslo’s Terror Blasts Caused by Car Bombs?
This charred wreck may be the remains of a car bomb that detonated outside the Norwegian prime minister’s office in Oslo. Could terrorists have succeeded in Norway where last year’s would-be Times...
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$265 Bomb, $300 Billion War: The Economics of the 9/11 Era’s Signature Weapon
Improvised bombs were already cheap. Now, they cost less than an iPhone. The post $265 Bomb, $300 Billion War: The Economics of the 9/11 Era's Signature Weapon appeared first on WIRED.
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Army’s New Bomb-Squad Recruit: Knight Rider’s Robotic Car
The military has tried using robots to defeat insurgent bombs for years, without much luck. So its new plan: an "intelligent" unmanned car that emulates "the best heuristics of human sensor and...
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Pentagon Looks to Sabotage Pakistan’s Bomb Supply
The Pentagon's bomb squad has a new idea to thwart Afghan insurgents' weapon of choice: by adding chemicals that'd render its main ingredient non-explosive or even make it lethal to the bomb builders...
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Pentagon: Future of Homemade Bombs Is High-Tech
The homemade bombs that insurgents use in Iraq and Afghanistan are low-tech efforts, making them hard to find and stop, and cheap enough to spread world wide. But the Pentagon's bomb squad doesn't see...
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The Pentagon Has 6 Bomb-Zapping Ray Guns (Which May Be 6 Too Many)
The Pentagon is spending $100 million on no fewer than six different kinds of laser guns designed to fry bombs from a safe distance. And that's just the tally of the laser, microwave or radio-frequency...
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Insurgents’ Homemade Bombs Are Increasingly Duds
Improvised explosive devices, the Afghanistan War's signature insurgent weapon, are now a quarter less effective than they were last year, according to Pentagon statistics provided to Danger Room....
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Insurgent Bombs Spread Way Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan
The signature insurgent weapon of Iraq and Afghanistan is proving more durable than either war. Every month, outside either the U.S. former warzone or its remaining active one, militia groups construct...
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Not Even the Pentagon Bomb Squad Knows How Fast Insurgent IEDs Degrade
The Pentagon bomb squad doesn't know how fast unexploded insurgent bombs take to degrade. Science suggests at least a year, and maybe longer. The post Not Even the Pentagon Bomb Squad Knows How Fast...
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Absent From Boston Bomb Investigation and Relief: U.S. Military
Boston was perhaps the first major domestic improvised-bomb attack. The U.S. military had nearly no part to play in the response. That's an encouraging sign. The post Absent From Boston Bomb...
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