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On Thursday night, hundreds of nationalist and loyalist youths confronted security forces, launching waves of attacks with petrol bombs, fireworks, bottles and blast bombs.
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Officers were attacked with petrol and blast bombs as they withdrew from the Ardoyne shops area after the return leg of an Orange Order parade to Ligoniel.
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Such attacks sickened many hundreds of Iraqis, but the victims who died in these assaults did so from the blast of the bombs rather than from inhaling chlorine.
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Less than two hours after that blast, two car bombs exploded simultaneously in the Kadhimiya district killing 15 people, officials said.
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U, can blast a seven-hectare area with cluster bombs.
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If it bombs, the banks absorb the blast.
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Even without unexploded devices, investigators can still sift through the blast marks of the detonated devices to determine how the bombs were constructed.
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Earlier, police and soldiers were attacked with petrol bombs in Lurgan after an army patrol discovered a blast bomb.
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The bomb, nicknamed the "mother of all bombs, " is officially known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast.
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After the blast, two of the men left the scene, while a third detonated two more bombs -- one when a taxi driver refused to give him a ride and another when he tried to throw a bomb at police officers as they closed in on him.
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U.S. intelligence agencies estimated that the 2006 North Korean test produced a blast equivalent to less than 1, 000 tons of TNT, a fraction of the size of the bombs the United States dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.
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More recently, a meteor exploded over the steppes of southwestern Russia on February 15, a blast that scientists at Canada's University of Western Ontario estimated had the energy of about 30 early nuclear bombs.
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