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World Trade Center Past Few Years
1,704 wordsTrent Kenya 5 / 15 / 00 Over the past few years a new threat has been encountered by the United States. This threat does not come from away, but from within. It is know as domestic terrorism. This has been seen over the past decade in the form of violence and terrorism across the United States. This has become a threat to American security and the American people in general. To battle against this issue, Congress has upheld the Anti-Terrorism Act in 1996. One of the best examples on examining th...
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Type Atomic Bomb J Robert Oppenheimer
3,057 words... of more than 90 %. " (Grolier 5) This Uranium was then transported to "the Los Alamos, N. Mex. , laboratory headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer. " (Grolier 5) "Oppenheimer was the major force behind the Manhattan Project. He literally ran the show and saw to it that all of the great minds working on this project made their brainstorms work. He oversaw the entire project from its conception to its completion. " (Outlaw 3) Once the purified Uranium reached New Mexico, it was made into the componen...
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Hate Groups National Guard
885 wordsMilitias in our country come in all sizes and shapes, they offer a wide variety of purposes. They started off as minutemen in the American Revolution. They have been perpetuated by society as a negative group but believed to fight for the war against evil. They have also changed rapidly throughout the years by their characteristics and there involvement with the nation. Some are more interested in selling goods and merchandise than anything else. Others are very closed to the outside world and w...
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Crime Scene Mental Disorders
1,565 words... t social scientists (e. g. James Q Wilson) has [sic] stressed the importance of 'socializing' people more effectively. " 'The Unabomber does not like socialization, technology, leftist political causes or conservative attitudes. Apart from his call for an (unspecified) revolution, his paper resembles something a very good graduate student might have written based on his own reading rather than the course assignments. If it is the work of a madman, the writings of many political philosophers ...
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Oklahoma City Bombing World Trade Center
1,894 words... image $ 550 million in both damages to the twin tower and in lost revenue to the business housed there 31 -- as the more "high-tech" devices constructed out of military ordnance, with timing devices powered by computer micro-chips and detonated by sophisticated timing mechanisms used by their "professional" counterparts. 32 Finally, while on the one hand terrorism is attracting "amateurs, " on the other hand the sophistication and operational competence of the "professional" terrorists is al...
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Viet Cong Automatic Weapons
1,813 wordsIntroduction My name is Jack Andrews and I still live with my parents, Robert and Marie Andrews, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I have one brother named John Andrews, and he is married and is living in California. These past few months my dad has been trying to persuade me to join the Army, like John did. I have given it some serious thought, and I am really thinking about joining. After all, I will get in better shape and it will be fun shooting fully automatic weapons. There is only one proble...
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Time Life Books Transcontinental Railroad
1,244 words... e the charge ignited. In order to speed up the process of blasting through the mountains, a new type of explosive was adopted. It was called nitro-glycerin; this compound was extremely explosive and unstable to transport. A Scottish chemist was hired to mix the formula near the workers. Although this would speed up the construction, it came at a heavy price. Workers were often killed by debris that would fly into the air when the explosives went off. The debris included trees, rocks, and dir...
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World Trade Centre Background Checks
1,668 wordsTrends of the Security Profession The global situation of the past years with growing threat of terrorism and hostage holding is leading the leaders of the developed countries to the review of the security techniques and principles. The security profession is shifting from manual and human based approach to more technological and computer implementing one. The latest trend of the security development is introduction of computer-driven video surveillance and controlling, where the profession of t...
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1,851 wordsUnderstanding Hazards: Fire, Flammability, Explosives, and Welding Introduction Understanding occupational hazards is the issue of primary importance. Both employees and employers acknowledge the responsibility to work safely with no endangering themselves at work. Welding, cutting, brazing, and working in electrical, technical and special industries expose the workers to various occupational hazards. The paper identifies the severity of problems dealing with fire, flammability, explosives, and ...
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W W Ii German Soldiers
900 wordsThe novel I read for this report is? The Guns of Navarone? a old war book written by Alistair MacLean which was first published in 1957 by William Collins Sons &# 038; Co. Ltd. It tells the story of a specialized commando team organized in 1943, during W. W. II, to sabotage and put out of commission the Axis firepower on the island of Navarone in the Aegean Sea. MacLean? s depiction of a vivid setting and fascinating characters are the most involving elements in this novel. The story begins in 1...
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Long Range Front Line
1,540 wordsWhen the first computer was built some decades ago, it was capable of doing simple calculations and other basic tasks. The engineers had no idea what the future would bring within the world of computers. Their invention was the first step in a major professional and personal transformation in the industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various work saving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). ...
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Guy Fawkes November 5
1,726 wordsGunpowder History Of Gunpowder GUNPOWDER Gunpowder is the oldest of all explosives. It was used by the ancient Chinese, Arabs, and people of India first. But exact directions on how to make it were not known to the western World until 1242, when Roger Bacon of Oxford University, in England published a book in which he told the ways to make gunpowder. Today gunpowder is not used as much as more powerful explosives After Roger Bacon published his formula for gunpowder, Berthold Schwarz, a German m...
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Atomic Bomb Atomic Weapon
1,764 wordsJust before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Winner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify Uranium- 235 which might be used to build an atomic bomb. Shortly after that the United States Government began work on the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the United States effort to develop the atomic bomb before th...
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Child Pornography Electronic Communications
1,390 wordsIn On-Line Dangers On-line Dangers In this day and age of super high-speed networking and digital communications, just about anything on any subject can be found on the Internet. Some materials, such as online libraries are helpful, some, such as students personal homepages are fairly useless, and some sites, such as online medical references, can be lifesaving. All these sites have a right to be on the web. However, there are also sites that could be detrimental to people, such as pornography s...
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Sulfuric Acid Nitric Acid
11,285 wordsPreparation And Mechanisms Of High And Low Preparation And Mechanisms Of High And Low Grade Explosives EXPLOSIVE FORMULAS Once again, persons reading this material should never attempt to produce any of the explosives described here. It is illegal and extremely dangerous to do so. Loss of life and limbs could easily result from a failed (or successful) attempt to produce any explosives or hazardous chemicals. These procedures are correct, however many of the methods given here are usually scaled...
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