"and Z-Victor 2. The title does not, as sometimes suggested, come from the cars used, Ford Zephyr and Ford Zodiac. The Zephyr was the standard traffic patrol car used by Lancashire and other police forces, while the Zodiac was only used for specialist tasks such as motorway patrol. ""Z Cars"" as an idea came to creator Troy Kennedy Martin as he listened to police messages on his radio while trying to relieve the boredom of being ill in bed with mumps. It was set in the fictional Newtown, loosely based on the modern suburb of Kirkby, one of many housing"
"just minutes after the bomb detonated. The footage can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KgKrHFuhgE. ""Able"" and ""Baker"" are the first two letters of the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet, used from 1941 until 1956. ""Alpha"" and ""Bravo"" are their counterparts in the current NATO phonetic alphabet. ""Charlie"" is the third letter in both systems. According to eyewitness accounts, the time of detonation for each test was announced as H or ""How"" hour; in the official JTF-1 history, the term M or ""Mike"" hour is used instead. There were only seven nuclear bombs in existence in July 1946. The two bombs used in"
"car at all. He was quoted as saying ""it was huge, it had no pickup, it couldn't handle,"" and in all of the scenes where he would lock the brakes to stop at a crime scene and bump the car off the curb, Glaser was purposely trying to break the Torino. Zebra Three Zebra Three is a radio code name, more accurately known as a call sign, given by the fictional ""Bay City, California"" police department of the iconic 1970s television series ""Starsky & Hutch"" to Robbery-Homicide Division detectives David Starsky and Kenneth ""Hutch"" Hutchinson; the BCPD was loosely based"
"nuclear reactor cooling towers and several characters from the show function as targets. Other targets depict the Simpson family's favorite foods, such as chocolate ice cream and donuts, and the family bowling. The machine is equipped with a Yamaha synthesizer that plays the theme song from the television series. It also features a computerized voice system on an OKI sound chip, and the characters are constantly talking. The original voices of the characters from the series are used. Mr. Burns says ""Smithers, fire that man!"" and ""Don't you know how to use flippers?"", while Bart says lines like ""Don't have"
"the term came to refer more to non-conventional weapons. The application of the term to specifically nuclear and radiological weapons is traced by William Safire to the Russian phrase ""Оружие массового поражения"" – ""oruzhiye massovogo porazheniya"" (weapon of mass destruction). William Safire credits James Goodby (of the Brookings Institution) with tracing what he considers the earliest known English-language use soon after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (although it is not quite verbatim): a communique from a 15 November 1945, meeting of Harry Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King (probably drafted by Vannevar Bush, as Bush claimed in 1970)"
"on to become the voice of the Farnborough Air Show and BBC TV's technology programme Tomorrow's World) identified the sorties under the name 'Operation Big Ben'. The missions were specific: Spitfire Mark XVI's with clipped wings, flew in formations of four aircraft (some Mark IX and some Mark XIV were also used occasionally) and dive-bombed the sites, sometimes through breaks in heavy cloud. Each Spitfire carried a 250lb bomb under each wing and a 500lb bomb under the fuselage. Very occasionally they would just carry the two 250lb bombs or just the 500lb bomb, if they were pin-pointing locations further"
"Zebra Three Zebra Three is a radio code name, more accurately known as a call sign, given by the fictional ""Bay City, California"" police department of the iconic 1970s television series ""Starsky & Hutch"" to Robbery-Homicide Division detectives David Starsky and Kenneth ""Hutch"" Hutchinson; the BCPD was loosely based upon the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) . The ""Zebra"" part of their call sign refers to them being a geographic patrol unit assigned to a special detail; however, the LAPD normally does this with uniformed officers. Several Los Angeles locations were used for ""Bay City"", and uniformed police officers were"
"Nuclear shaped charge Nuclear shaped charges refers to nuclear weapons that focus the energy of their explosion into certain directions, as opposed to a spherical explosion. Edward Teller referred to such concepts as third-generation weapons, the first generation being the atom bomb and the second the H-bomb. The basic concept has been raised on several occasions, with the first known references being part of the Project Orion nuclear-powered spacecraft project in the 1960s. This used beryllium oxide to convert the X-rays released by a small bomb into infrared light, which explosively vaporized a tamper material, normally tungsten, causing it to"
"the end of the war, in 1945, the word kamikaze has sometimes been used as a ""pars pro toto"" for other kinds of attack in which an attacker is deliberately sacrificed. These include a variety of suicide attacks, in other historical contexts, such as the proposed use of ""Selbstopfer"" aircraft by Nazi Germany and various suicide bombings by terrorist organisations around the world, such as the September 11, 2001 attacks. Many films and television programs overdramatise car explosions, showing them as being far more likely than they actually are. Cars in these media frequently explode after a crash or when"
"Ricky Hammonds (Top Gun instructor and MiG pilot): ""Organ"". In the 1991 film ""Flight of the Intruder"", new A-6 Intruder pilot LTJG Jack Barlow is given the call sign ""Razor"" because he didn't look old enough to shave. It is later changed to ""Straight Razor"" at the end of the film because he'd become ""a real weapon"" in the eyes of his commanding officer. The book's principal character Jake Grafton has the call sign ""Cool Hand"". Dwight Schultz's Captain H.M. ""Howling Mad"" Murdock, from the 1983 television series The A-Team (as well as his counterpart in the 2010 film adaptation,"
"atom bomb is depicted in ""Target Nevada"". It occurred on January 27, 1951, with the airburst of a bomb dropped from 20,000 feet over the desert, on Frenchman Flat, Nevada, by ""Rosebud"", a Boeing B-50D Superfortress bomber. The dawn test, code named ""Ranger Able"", part of Operation Ranger, was visible for 50 miles and lit the sky ""like the morning sun"". ""Target Nevada"" uses footage shown also in ""Operation Buster-Jangle"" (1951). Due to the lack of knowledge on the residual effects of exposure to radiation, military personnel and civilian observers were in close proximity to the bomb blasts. Aircraft seen"
"from the film were re-used for the 1971 ABC made-for-television movie ""Assault on the Wayne"", starring Leonard Nimoy, Joseph Cotten, Keenan Wynn, William Windom, Sam Elliott, and Dewey Martin, which also featured ""Zebra"" cast members Lloyd Haynes and Ron Masak. The name ""Zebra"" comes from the representation of the letter Z in the Joint Army/Navy phonetic alphabet. In the modern NATO phonetic alphabet later adopted by aviation and navigation, ""Zulu"" is being used instead of ""Zebra"". In actuality, there was an Ice Station ""Alpha"" (phonetic for the letter ""A"") established by the US Air Force in 1957 as part of"
"associated with the James Bond series and in 24 (TV series). The notion of a supervillain threatening world leaders with a nuclear device has since become a cliché, and has been parodied in Charles K. Feldman's ""Casino Royale"", """", ""The Simpsons"" episode ""You Only Move Twice"", and other espionage spoofs. Nuclear blackmail Nuclear blackmail is a form of nuclear strategy in which an aggressor uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some action or make some concessions. It is a type of extortion, related to brinkmanship. Nuclear blackmail is considered most effective when"
"Tsar Bomba The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name ""Ivan"" or ""Vanya""), known by Western nations as Tsar Bomba (), was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Tested on 30 October 1961, it also remains the most powerful explosive ever detonated. It was also referred to as ""Kuzma's mother"" (), possibly referring to First secretary Nikita Khrushchev's promise to ""show the United States a Kuzma's mother"" (an idiom roughly translating to ""We'll show you"") at a 1960 session of United Nations General Assembly. The bomb had a yield of 50 megatons of TNT (210 PJ). In theory, it would"
"A specialist Army unit, 321 EOD Unit (later 321 EOD Company, and now part of 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment RLC), was deployed to tackle increased IRA violence and willingness to use bombs against both economic and military targets. The unit's radio call-sign was Felix. Many believe this to be an allusion to the cat with nine lives and led to the phrase ""Fetch Felix"" whenever a suspect device was encountered, which later became the title of the 1981 book ""Fetch Felix"". However, the real reason could be either of two possibilities. All units in Northern Ireland had a callsign"
"will be easier to produce than conventional nuclear weapons and could be used in terrorist attacks. A vehicle may be laden with explosives, set to explode by remote control or by a passenger/driver, commonly known as a car bomb or vehicle-borne IED (VBIED, pronounced ""vee-bid""). On occasion the driver of the car bomb may have been coerced into delivery of the vehicle under duress, a situation known as a proxy bomb. Distinguishing features are low-riding vehicles with excessive weight, vehicles with only one passenger, and ones where the interior of the vehicles look as if they have been stripped down"
"being hit by bullets. This was debunked in the 2009 season of ""MythBusters"". Vehicle explosion A vehicle explosion is the destruction of, or damage to, a vehicle caused by an explosion. They may be caused by an accident or be used as a weapon. A car bomb is an improvised explosive device that is placed in a car or other vehicle and then exploded. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination, terrorism, or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupant(s) of the vehicle and people near the blast site and/or to cause damage to buildings or other property. Car"
"the events because this did not further the business interests of commercial networks. General Norman Schwarzkopf referred to the driver of a vehicle in a famous news conference during Gulf War on January 30, 1991 as ""The luckiest man in Iraq"". He showed a video of a laser-guided bomb destroying a bridge just after the vehicle had driven over it. In Britain, the BBC devoted the FM portion of its national speech radio station BBC Radio 4 to a 18h rolling news format creating Radio 4 News FM. The station was short lived, ending shortly after President Bush declared the"
"with Arsenic, also known as ""A.S. 33"". Salted bomb A salted bomb is a nuclear weapon designed to function as a radiological weapon, producing enhanced quantities of radioactive fallout, rendering a large area uninhabitable. The term is derived both from the means of their manufacture, which involves the incorporation of additional elements to a standard atomic weapon, and from the expression ""to salt the earth"", meaning to render an area uninhabitable for generations. The idea originated with Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard, in February 1950. His intent was not to propose that such a weapon be built, but to show that"
"program at Caltech, where he would meet Tyler Johnson, who was also studying physics and finishing up his undergraduate work. In August 2003, Cottrell and Tyler Johnson developed a plan to place bumper stickers on SUVs reading ""SUV = TERRORISM."" In a series of emails that were later recovered by the FBI, Cottrell attempted to recruit friends to help him purchase the bumper stickers, and organised arson attacks on a series of Hummer dealers. He was arrested in March 2004 after law enforcement tracked him sending emails to the ""Los Angeles Times."" The e-mails signed by ""Tony Marsden"" speak about"
"The title of both the novels and the TV series refers to ""Zero-Seven"", a police radio call-sign used by Borewicz. Despite being widely considered a work of propaganda aimed at warming the image of ""Citizen's Militia"", the series proved highly popular in Poland and even gained a cult following. Critics consider it ""one of the biggest achievements of Polish crime drama"" the ""raw and realist response to Bond"", and ""the most popular Polish police series ever"". 07 zgłoś się 07 zgłoś się (""07 Come In"") was a popular Polish criminal television series broadcast on TVP between 1976 and 1987. The"
"When the victim starts the car and audio, they will hear the assassin saying that they were just ""car bombed"". Another car-bomb variant allows one to shoot and kill the person while they are in the car by striking the car rather than the person inside, if using the Nerf Rocket Launcher or equivalent. An assassin may also bomb a victim by sending him or her a package in the mail with a dart or letter saying ""You're Bombed."" The victim is eliminated as soon as she or he opens the package and reads the note. In the sticker-based variants,"
"attacker on his or her body, or in a vehicle driven to the target. The Blue Peacock nuclear mines, which were also termed ""bombs"", were planned to be positioned during wartime and be constructed such that, if disturbed, they would explode within ten seconds. The explosion of a bomb may be triggered by a detonator or a fuse. Detonators are triggered by clocks, remote controls like cell phones or some kind of sensor, such as pressure (altitude), radar, vibration or contact. Detonators vary in ways they work, they can be electrical, fire fuze or blast initiated detonators and others, In"
"know about the plan, he plans to find out the location of the nuclear bomb as soon as possible by taking the help of Remote Radiation Sensors in satellites and innumerable beggars in the city. This helps the team zero in on the location. After they overpower most of the terrorists in a commando operation, Dost Khan comes to know about it and sets the nuclear bomb to explode in a few minutes. This creates a lot of problem for Vijay Vir Singh, as the bomb can be defused only by exclusive voice command of Dost Khan saying: ""Dulhan Ki"
"significance or anything. We were just tired of trying to think of a cool name."" On ""Starsky & Hutch"", another 1970s American television series, their car was identified as ""Zebra 3"". Also, since many police, fire department, and rescue squad TV programs and movies are set in Los Angeles, the words of the LAPD phonetic alphabet have become familiar in the United States, Canada and English-speaking countries around the world due to the wide reach of American entertainment media. When used by workers such as telephone operators speaking to “civilians” who may be unfamiliar with the use of a phonetic"
"the evening of May 1, 2010, a failed car bomb was defused by the New York City Police Department on West 45th Street and Broadway near the northeastern corner of the building. The authorities briefly investigated a possible connection between the bomb and the 200th episode of Comedy Central's ""South Park"", which had included depictions of a man in a bear suit (labeled 'Bears') that the South Park kids pointed at, calling him Muhammad. The attempt was traced to Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistan-born resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who had become a U.S. citizen in April 2009. Notes One Astor"
"film """". In Don Delillo's 1997 novel ""Underworld"", Marvin mentions nuclear weapons and it is said ""He pronounced it nucular"". Homer Simpson (a nuclear power plant employee) of the popular American animated TV series ""The Simpsons"" and Peter Griffin of the animated comedy series ""Family Guy"" both pronounce nuclear this way (during the episode ""Da Boom"", Peter 'corrects' Lois Griffin's correct pronunciation of the word). In the video game ""Starcraft II"", the Ghost exclaims """"Nucular launch detected"""" if he is clicked on repeatedly. In ""Get Smart"", the President, in a clear parody of George W. Bush, says ""nucular"", only for"
"Salted bomb A salted bomb is a nuclear weapon designed to function as a radiological weapon, producing enhanced quantities of radioactive fallout, rendering a large area uninhabitable. The term is derived both from the means of their manufacture, which involves the incorporation of additional elements to a standard atomic weapon, and from the expression ""to salt the earth"", meaning to render an area uninhabitable for generations. The idea originated with Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard, in February 1950. His intent was not to propose that such a weapon be built, but to show that nuclear weapon technology would soon reach the"
"General Jacob L. Devers, the Chief of the Armored Force, on an inspection tour of the battlefields in North Africa. Barnes enthusiastically endorsed the M1 Rocket Launcher after seeing a makeshift prototype in a demonstration at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in May 1942. After firing the new weapon himself, Barnes commented: ""It sure looks like Bob Burns' bazooka"". Bob Burns was a popular radio comedian, who used a novelty musical instrument which he had devised himself and called a ""bazooka"". The name stuck and is still in use as a generic term referring to any ground-to-ground shoulder-fired missile weapon. Well"
"limo or presidential suburban. 22 of these vehicles were built by Assurance Technology Corporation in Carlisle, MA and developed with NRL (Naval Research Laboratory). The primary communications path is via the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) III (U) satellite. There are nine of these satellites currently in orbit, each one providing six super high frequency encrypted data and voice channels and a single channel dedicated for Emergency Action Messages which would be used to direct a nuclear release from the motorcade. Voice channels are all encrypted, most likely with FASCINATOR encryption. FASCINATOR is a digital voice encryption standard for the"
"American nuclear research establishment. In a 1965 interview with Teller on the ill-fated Project Plowshare, Teller can be heard pronouncing the word correctly. In Woody Allen's 1989 film ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"", Mia Farrow's character says she could never fall for any man who says ""nucular"". The pronunciation was satirized in the 1996 science fiction film ""Mars Attacks!"". Later, the pronunciation was utilized earnestly by the titular character in ""Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"" after Indiana survives an atomic bomb test by crawling inside a lead-lined refrigerator. This pronunciation was also used in the 2012 animated family"
"government spending on CBRN defence products and services would reach US$8.38bn that year. In English the term ""CBRN"" is a replacement for the cold war term ""NBC"" (nuclear, biological, and chemical), which had replaced the term ""ABC"" (atomic, biological, and chemical) that was used in the fifties. The addition of the ""R"" (for ""radiological"") is a consequence of the ""new"" threat of a radiological weapon (also known as ""dirty bombs""). In the new millennium, the term ""CBRNe"" was introduced as an extension of ""CBRN"" - the ""e"" in this term representing the enhanced (improvised) explosives threat. In Spanish the term"
"and hard work. Late in 1974, the CAF's B-29 was christened ""FIFI"" and joined the other World War II fighters and bombers to continue the CAF mandate ""to preserve the memories and teach of lessons of mankind's greatest war."" Besides air displays, ""FIFI"" appears in several films, including ""Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, and the Atomic Bomb"" (1980), ""Roswell"" (1994), and ""The Right Stuff"" (1983), standing in for the Bell X-1's ""mothership"". ""FIFI"" is also in, and is the episode title of, AMC's ""Better Call Saul"" Season 2, Episode 8. Throughout the years of air displays across the country,"