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Posted on UTC 2025-06-01 02:01
24.06.2025 – The new weights and measures
Just when we thought we had come to terms with measures of area (football fields) and measures of volume (Olympic-size swimming pools), along comes a new measure of weight:
Those holes, after all, revealed the pinpoint precision with which the world’s heaviest conventional bombs – each one weighing as much as three adult African elephants – had struck their targets.
'Stealth bombers’ 37-hour mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear fortress', Daily Telegraph 22.06.2025.
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