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Thermobaric Bombs Hit Different

Thermobaric Bombs Hit Different

When TNT and napalm aren't good enough

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Nathan A Drescher
Mar 29, 2022
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People in Kyiv were introduced to a new horror on March 3, 2022. It had been an unusually quiet night for wartime Kyiv. The regular barrage of Grad rockets had stopped. The regular roar of Russian jets, as predictable as the sunrise, was missing. Those who weren’t hiding in an underground shelter or metro station remarked on how quiet it had been.

Then …

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