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When using a thermonuclear weapon against a countervalue target (that is, a city) you want an airburst. We tend to think of hydrogen bombs in terms of blast and radiation, but the real killer effect of a large H-bomb is the thermal pulse.

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QM mentioned the USS Albany in the comments earlier. They were impressive ships.

That’s two Talos, and a Tartar for good measure.

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Australia recalls ambassador to Indonesia.

Indonesia executed eight people accused of drug trafficking, including two Australians, as part of President Joko Widodo’s “war on drugs”. Australian officials had made personal appeals for clemency from Indonesia’s government, but it all came to naught yesterday, when a firing squad carried out the state’s sentence and shot the convicts dead.

Here’s a hint- don’t traffic drugs to countries that have the death penalty for trafficking.

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There’s a reason troops goofing off is called “playing grabass.”

Mind you, there’s a vast gulf between playing grabass (which fully meets the elements of certain portions of Article 120) and what we tend to think of when we speak of sexual assault, which is rape.

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Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the fall of Vietnam. One young boy who was able to flee is now a US Army general.

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I hope the goat wasn’t the only reason the skipper was relieved.