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“They were accused of collecting information ranging from research programs on small-yield, high-penetration nuclear warheads to the global gold market, and seeking background on people who applied for jobs at the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, according to criminal complaints filed in a U.S. court.”
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Five minutes after that, the small-yield suitcase-borne nuclear bomb went off.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Five minutes after that, the small-yield suitcase-borne nuclear bomb went off.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Five minutes after that, the small-yield suitcase-borne nuclear bomb went off.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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But let's put the test, apparently a small-yield, inefficient device, into some perspective.
NORTH KOREA'S BOMB 2006
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And there was also computer graphics of this weapon, and the actual penetration, and it is tipped with a nuclear device, small-yield nuclear device just to do the job, reportedly, cleanly.
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"Perhaps it is a small-yield device," Nakata suggests hopefully.
Starfish 1999
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With overpressures greater than those of small-yield nuclear weapons, such munitions affect wide areas.
FM 100-61 Chptr 10 Air Support United States Army 1998
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With overpressures greater than those of small-yield nuclear weapons, such munitions affect wide areas.
FM 100-61 Chptr 10 Air Support United States Army 1998
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Long-range, precision weapons can possess the destructiveness of small-yield nuclear weapons and use all-weather, deep-looking surveillance means for targeting.
FM 100-61 Chptr 6 Army an Army Group Defensive Operations United States Army 1998
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