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Topic: Airdrop

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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nuclear testing
		Atmospheric testing which comes in contact with the ground or other materials poses the highest risk.
		Nuclear weapons have been tested by dropping them from planes (an "airdrop"), from the tops of towers, hoisted from balloons, on barges at sea, attached to the bottom of ships, and even shot into outer space by rockets (for the latter see below).
		The first atomic test was detonated by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945, with a yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Nuclear_testing (1128 words)

	History of Afghanistan - The History Beat
		Air Force general Richard Myers, head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that approximately 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles, launched by British and US submarines and ships, 15 strike aircraft from carriers and 25 bombers, such as B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress and F-16 Fighting Falcon were involved in the first wave.
		Two C-17 Globemaster transport jets were to deliver 37,500 daily rations by airdrop to refugees inside Afghanistan on the first day of the attack.
		A pre-recorded video tape of Osama bin Laden had been released before the attack in which he condemned any attacks against Afghanistan.
	history.searchbeat.com /afghanistan.htm (4392 words)

	Selected Links
		He got national news coverage during the airdrop, this is the link to several pages of his photos and commentary on the NOAA web site.
		was (and still is) a professor at the University of Washington when he wintered in 1992 studying climatology; this is a short diary from that winter, including tales of airdrop and midwinter camping.
		Not his first trip to the ice; his 1988 visit is pictured on an Australian postage stamp, one of few Polies to be so honored.
	www.southpolestation.com /links.html (6335 words)

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