“As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.”

“B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have ⟳ highlighted as the only type ⟳ of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry ⟳ two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh ⟳ an impressive 30,000 pounds each.”

“The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last ⟳ spring ⟳ told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set ⟳ fire to the country and stir ⟳ up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.”

“A few years ago, the leather bomber was a gold mine for retailers and a gravy train ⟳ for vendors. Consumers were crazy for them.”

“First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit ⟳, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt.[…]”

“To bomb the system is to saturate MTA subway cars with one's signatures. ln the 1980s, certain writers were identified as bombers because they had mastered all disciplines of the form ⟳: insides, throw-ups, window-downs, top-to-bottoms, […]”

“In Canada, marihuana cigarettes rarely contain ⟳ any tobacco, and may vary ⟳ in size from a few hundred milligrams up to a several gram "bomber."”

“That night, I swallowed the last ⟳ of my pain pills, smoked a bomber, and let ⟳ the drugs carry ⟳ me away.”

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