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The testing of the Mark 9 atomic artillery shell was the Grable event, part of a much larger series of nuclear detonations under the umbrella of Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE in 1953. This operation conducted at the Nevada Test Site consisted of 11 atmospheric tests. There were three airdrops, seven tower tests, and one airburst. Conducted between March 17 and June 4, 1953, this operation involved the testing of new theories. A new and revolutionary method of producing deliverable nuclear ...

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Operation CASTLE was a six-detonation test series held at the Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Pacific Proving Ground in the Spring of 1954. This test series, principally conducted at the Enewetak and Bikini Atolls in the northwestern Marshall Islands, provided proof tests of large-yield thermonuclear, or hydrogen, devices. CASTLE represented the end of a drive for a workable thermonuclear weapon and the beginning of the refinement of large-H-bombs into smaller and more efficient weapons ...

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his test took place in the spring of 1951. It was carried out by the 8500 members of Joint Task Force Three; men drawn from the Atomic Energy Commission, its contractors, military, industrial, and educational laboratories, and from the Army, Navy, and Air Force." Operation GREENHOUSE was conducted in April and May of 1951. This test series consisted of four weapons related test shots from the 300-foot level on towers on the Enewetak Atoll, Pacific Ocean, two of which greatly aided the ...

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KBR Convoy Ambushed in Iraq. Preston Wheeler, a truck driver for KBR a subsidiary of Halliburton shot this amazing video of his truck convoy being ambushed in Iraq. The attack occurred after the US military made a wrong turn down a dead-end street. Mr. Wheeler is lucky to be alive. Three KBR truck drivers were killed after US troops apparently abandoned the truck drivers.

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DEAD IN THE WATER During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Israel claimed that the whole affair had been a tragic accident based on mistaken identification of the ship. The American government accepted the explanation. For more than 30 years many people have disbelieved the official explanation but have been unable ...

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Remember when Sarah Palin said that "the surge principles that have worked in Iraq need to be implemented in Afghanistan." Wellas Ms. Palin would say, many Afghans working for the Afghan security forces are now switching sides and are now defecting to the Taliban. Guess who trained many of them? Blackwater!

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In September 2007, private contractors Blackwater were implicated in the shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians. In this special we air Private Armies and are joined by author Jeremy Scahill to discuss the danger of using "guns for hire".

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BLACKWATER'S WAR CRIMES / Many of the legal experts say there almost literally is no law that could be applied to Blackwater, except war crimes. There clearly is jurisdiction and a basis to act against them under the War Crimes Act. But the Bush administration doesn't want to go there, doesn't want to touch that. I think they've made that point clear. Congress is trying to amend that so that it would apply to Blackwater, but it can't be applied retroactively. Talk about free pass ! With a ...

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The Army in Joint Operations (The Army's Future Force Capstone Concept 2015-2024). BG(P) David Fastabend from the US Army Training and Doctrine Command's Futures Center presents an overview of the logic underpinning The Army in Joint Operations, The Army's Future Force Capstone Concept 2015-2024 (TRADOC Pam 525-3-0).

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The controversy over Blackwater USA, whose private security guards opened fire on Iraqi civilians, leaving at least 11 dead. The Iraqi gov't says Blackwater must go...but who has the power over these "soldiers for hire?

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