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• USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
  |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval}} ...on 26 February 1944, and almost immediately afterward transferred to the [[Soviet Union]], under the [[Lend Lease]] program, under the name '''''Severny Vete
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• Arc Welding
  ...In 1802, Vasily Petrov discovered the continuous electric arc<ref>[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]], Article ''"Дуговой разряд"'' (eng. ''electric ...tinuously fed. Shielding gas became a subject receiving much attention as scientists attempted to protect welds from the effects of oxygen and nitrogen in the a
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• 9M133 Kornet
  ...|title=Kornet (AT-14) |accessdate=2008-11-08 |work=Federation of American Scientists |date=1999-06-19}}</ref>. {{Russian and Soviet missiles|ATM}}
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• 30 mm automatic cannon 2A42
  The '''Shipunov 2A42''' is a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]/[[Russia]]n 30&nbsp;mm [[automatic cannon]]. It is built by the Tulamashz The 2A42 fires 30x165 ammunition, a caliber introduced in 1970's in the Soviet Union to replace previous 30mm autocannon cartridges. Other weapons using t
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...(machine gun)|NSV]] & [[Kord machine gun|Kord]] 12.7&nbsp;mm machine guns, Soviet/Russian equivalents. ...M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun] at [http://www.fas.org Federation of American Scientists]
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• M61 Vulcan
  ...e=April 23, 2000 |year= |month= |work= |publisher=[[Federation of American Scientists]] |pages= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> *[[Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23|GSh-6-23]] (the closest [[Soviet]]/[[Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS]] equivalent of the M61, used on
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• Petroleum
  ...e=2008-02-17 |doi=10.1111/j.1751-3928.2006.tb00271.x}}</ref> More recently scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science have found that ethane and heavier ...mb|250px|right|Graph of Top Oil Producing Countries 1960–2006, including Soviet Union<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pdf/pages/sec11_10
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• Depleted uranium
  ...first manufactured in the 1940s when the [[US]], [[UK]], [[France]] and [[Soviet Union|USSR]] began their [[nuclear weapon]]s and [[nuclear power]] programs |publisher= International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation
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• Hemp
  In 1916, U.S. Department of Agriculture chief scientists Lyster H. Dewe and Jason L. Merrill created paper made from hemp pulp, whic From the 1950s to the 1980s the [[Soviet Union]] was the world's largest producer (3,000&nbsp;km² in 1970). The ma
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• Ethylene oxide
  ...synthesis method had long remained the only, despite numerous attempts of scientists, including Wurtz himself, to produce ethylene oxide directly from [[ethyl]] |publisher = "Soviet encyclopedia"
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• List of inventions named after people
  ...the [[Finland|Finnish]] army, and named after [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], the Soviet Minister of War * [[List of scientists]]
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• List of prizes named after people
  ...nd the biological sciences"; awarded by the [[Royal Society of London]] to scientists of any nationality ...era) or Russian (post-communist era). Known as the Kurchatov Medal in the Soviet era, and the Kurchatov Gold Medal today.
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• Xenon
  In 1995, M. Räsänen and co-workers, scientists at the [[University of Helsinki]] in [[Finland]], announced the preparation |journal=Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics
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• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  ...l Hearings – Intelligence and Security |publisher=Federation of American Scientists |date=1998-02-24 |accessdate=2008-10-27}}</ref> ...Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 |publisher=The Penguin Press HC |year= 2004
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• History of terrorism
  ==Germany and the Soviet Union of the 1930s== ...orist' to the ruthless actions of their police, nor to the [[NKVD]] in the Soviet Union or the [[Gestapo]] in [[Nazism|Nazi]] Germany, but only to those who
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• Ken Alibek
  ...born 1950) — known as '''Dr. Ken Alibek''' since 1992 — is a former [[Soviet]] [[physician]], [[scientist]] and [[biological warfare]] (BW) expert. He r ...Kauchuk]], in the [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic|Kazakh SSR]] of the [[Soviet Union]] (in present day [[Kazakhstan]]) and grew up in [[Almaty]], the repu
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• The Demon in the Freezer
  ...ts in the history of public health. Then it's off to an examination of the Soviet bio-weapons program in 1989."; Fierman, Daniel, [http://archives.cnn.com/20 ...oweaponeer]] to flee to the West. Pasechnik described [[Biopreparat]], the Soviet biological weapons program, to [[MI6]], including their [[genetically modif
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• Bruce Edwards Ivins
  ...ion to anthrax after the [[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak|anthrax outbreak in the Soviet city]] of [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]] (now known as Yekaterinburg), which ...ller than the finest known grade of anthrax produced by either the U.S. or Soviet bioweapons programs.<ref name="Gugliotta"/> An [[electron microscope]], whi
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• Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks
  ...arting within weeks after the discovery of the anthrax letters, a group of scientists playing amateur detectives, later joined by the media and some politicians, ...National Cancer Institute]] at [[Fort Detrick]], [[Frederick, Maryland]]. Scientists at the National Cancer Institute building would additionally research other
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• Abu Sayyaf
  ...ies to [[mujahadeen]] while fighting and training in the war against the [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]].<ref name = "PacCom"/> Abu Sayyaf proclaimed them ...ilippine-U.S. Anti-Terrorism Cooperation |publisher=Federation of American Scientists |date=2002-01-25 |work=CRS Report for Congress |url=http://www.fas.org/irp/
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