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• Fallout shelter
  ...om a [[nuclear explosion]]. Many such shelters were constructed as [[civil defense]] measures during the Cold War. |title=Civil Defense Museum-Community Shelter Tours Main Page
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...racks bombing''' (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) during the Lebanese Civil War, two [[truck bomb]]s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of th ...what was happening at the airport<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rcp1.terre.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?centre=coeur_regiment/organisation/3cie.html|title=1st Pa
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• Kearny Fallout Meter
  ...ch performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and published in the [[civil defense]] manual ''[[Nuclear War Survival Skills]]'' (ISBN 0-942487-01-X). The plan [[Category:Civil defense]]
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• Nuclear War Survival Skills
  ...uclear War Survival Skills''' or '''NWSS''' by Cresson Kearny is a [[civil defense]] manual. It contains information gleaned from research performed at Oak R [[Category:Civil defense]]
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• Kearny Air Pump
  [[Category:Civil defense]]
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• 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37/41
  ...K 18 was available in small numbers when Germany intervened in the Spanish Civil War. It quickly proved to be the best anti-aircraft weapon then available. ...anti-aircraft defenses as a whole, the guns should be transferred from air defense units to anti-tank duties, but this politically unpopular move was never ma
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• 2 cm FlaK 30
  ...litary)|armored car]]s and the light tanks of the era during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. ...t was fitted to [[U-boat]]s and ships to provide short-range anti-aircraft defense, and was also employed in fixed installations around ports, harbors and oth
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• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
  |name=37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K) |type=Air defense gun
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...ar]]<br>[[United States invasion of Panama]] <br>[[Gulf War]] <br>[[Somali Civil War]] <br>[[Operation Medak Pocket]]<br>[[War on Terror]] ([[War in Afghani * Secondary weapon for anti-boat defense on large naval vessels (corvettes, frigates, destroyers, cruisers, etc).
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• Parrott rifle
  ...[[Rifling|rifled]] [[artillery]] weapon used extensively in the [[American Civil War]]. ...t+rifle%22+%22robert+parker+parrott%22&lr=&sig=3W9wyByS8IFq95FEMRm87LoKapc Civil War Weapons and Equipment], p.82. Globe Pequit Press, 2003. ISBN 15857449
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• Saab Bofors Dynamics
  ...oup, the parent group of Bofors. In September 2000 [[United Defense|United Defense Industries]] (UDI) purchased Bofors Weapon Systems from Saab (the tube [[ar Several public campaigns, including civil disobedience actions, have targeted production sites and transports. A curr
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• Type 14 10 cm AA Gun
  ...alized that it was underpowered and lacked the range necessary for [[civil defense]] of Japanese cities from enemy [[strategic bombing|air raid]]s. A larger v ...] during the [[Pacific War]]. Some units were based in Kyūshū cities for defense against [[Air raids on Japan|American air raid]]s, but most were based at t
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• Type 5 15 cm AA Gun
  ...It was intended to replace the earlier [[Type 3 12 cm AA Gun]] in [[civil defense]] against [[Air raids on Japan|American air raids]].
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• Type 88 75 mm AA Gun
  ...only 7250 meters was inadequate. Some units were also assigned to coastal defense batteries.
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...]]. He based his criticisms on the grounds that (a) deprogramming violated civil liberties and [[religious freedom]] principles guaranteed in the [[US Const ...elton, who has written extensively on cults and religions, has come out in defense of Aum, the Japanese cult linked to the gassing of a Tokyo subway in March
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...the [[Confederate States of America|American South]] after the [[American Civil War]], citing the need to "control the negro", to "prevent any interminglin ...48016.html Are they taking the Mick? It's the encyclopedia that thinks the Civil War was between the north and south] ''Evening Herald'' Thursday 4 February
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• Copyright status of work by the U.S. government
  ...Associates, Inc. | month=August | year=2004 | work=Commerce, Energy, NASA, Defense Information Managers Group | url=http://cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyrigh ...[Dolley Madison]], for $30,000;<ref>''An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and thi
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• Depleted uranium
  ...tm "Properties and Characteristics of DU"] U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense</ref> DU is also found in [[Nuclear reprocessing|reprocessed]] spent nucle ...tary specifications designate that the DU used by the [[U.S. Department of Defense]] (DoD) contain less than 0.3 percent ²³⁵U (AEPI, 1995). In actu
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• Hemp
  ...t straw, hemp and sisal. (Popular Mechanics, Dec. 1941, "Pinch Hitters for Defense.") Filtered hemp oil can be used directly to power [[diesel engine]]s. In 1 ...icant portion of [[antebellum]] Kentucky's economy. Before the [[American Civil War]], many slaves worked on [[plantation economy|plantations]] producing h
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• Asbestos
  .... Asbestos is not a material covered under [[CERCLA]]'s innocent purchaser defense. In the UK, the removal and disposal of asbestos and of substances containi ...arn compensation through companies. [[RAND]], along with the Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) have been proponents of the organization of past cases in ord
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