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The component, known by the code word "fogbank," is thought to be made of an exotic material and is crucial to a hydrogen bomb reaching its designed energy level in the microseconds before it blows apart.
unknown title 2009
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The component, known by the code word "fogbank," is thought to be made of an exotic material and is crucial to a hydrogen bomb reaching its designed energy level in the microseconds before it blows apart.
Gazette.com : 2009
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Weather: The damn fogbank is making it cold in the valley.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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Weather: The damn fogbank is making it cold in the valley.
Archive 2005-11-20 Michael Evans 2005
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Meanwhile, the main technical problem hindering the refurbishment effort, aimed at preparing thousands of aging warheads for use, is a classified component known by the code word "fogbank."
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The freighter in the fogbank off Tartous: it began to seem like an Eric Ambler espionage novel.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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The freighter in the fogbank off Tartous: it began to seem like an Eric Ambler espionage novel.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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A Midwestern town is enveloped by a mysterious fogbank one night.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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A Midwestern town is enveloped by a mysterious fogbank one night.
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It's a vapor shrouded by steam wrapped in a fogbank.
THE RANT: Now is the time for all cartoonists to satirize Steve Jobs 2010
chained_bear commented on the word fogbank
"Put us in that fogbank, Tom." --Captain Aubrey, "Master and Commander"
February 21, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word fogbank
Sunday Herald: 'The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) "lost knowledge" of how to make a mysterious but very hazardous material codenamed Fogbank. As a result, the warhead refurbishment programme was put back by at least a year, and racked up an extra $69 million... Neither the NNSA nor the UK Ministry of Defence would say anything about the nature or function of Fogbank. But it is thought by some weapons experts to be a foam used between the fission and fusion stages of a thermonuclear bomb. US officials have said that manufacturing the material requires a solvent cleaning agent which is "extremely flammable" and "explosive". The process also involves dealing with "toxic materials" hazardous to workers.'
March 10, 2009