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31National Ignition Facility — NIF s basic layout. The laser pulse is generated in the room just right of center, and is sent into the beamlines (blue) on either side. After several passes through the beamlines the light is sent into the switchyard (red) where it is aimed into …
32United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
33Nevada National Security Site — Nevada Test Site November 1951 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Test is shot Dog from Operation Buster, with a yield of 21 kilotonnes of TNT (88 TJ). It was the f …
34Phalanx CIWS — Phalanx (Block 1A) live fire test, USS Monterey (CG 61) Type …
35Minot Air Force Base — Part of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) Located near: Minot, North Dakota …
36Merkava — For the religious/mystical connotations of the word, see Merkabah. Merkava Merkava Mark IV in Yad La Shiryon, Latrun. Type …
37Distant Early Warning Line — DEW redirects here. For energy emitting weapons, see Directed Energy Weapons. USAF Distant Early Warning Line and Distant Early Warning System Office Emblem …
38Dates of 2004 — ▪ 2005 January It turns out we were all wrong, probably, in my judgment. David Kay, former U.S. chief weapons inspector in Iraq, in testimony to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, January 28 January 1 Haitian Pres. Jean… …
39Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement — ▪ 2006 Introduction Trials of former heads of state, U.S. Supreme Court rulings on eminent domain and the death penalty, and high profile cases against former executives of large corporations were leading legal and criminal issues in 2005.… …
40Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 — Infobox Airliner accident|name=Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 Crash Image caption=Recovered parts of Itavia Flight 870Pratica di Mare Air Force Base Date=June 27, 1980 Type=unknown in flight explosion Site=Tyrrhenian Sea near Ustica, Italy… …
