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He also has a site called Defusing the Nuclear Threat, but it seems to be down at the moment.
TreeHugger 2010
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He also has a site called Defusing the Nuclear Threat, but it seems to be down at the moment.
TreeHugger 2010
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Video Officer: China's Arms Technology Misjudged China Seen Defusing Korea China Clones, Sells Russian Fighter Jets Factiva Search: Aviation Technology Yet Chinese bloggers described in detail Friday how Chinese officials had arrived at the airfield in motorcades and private jets to inspect the J-20 and pose for photographs wearing the pilot's helmet and sitting in the cockpit.
China Stealth Jet 'Leak' Viewed as Intentional Jeremy Page 2011
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Defusing a nuclear warhead in mid-flight is a lot harder.
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Defusing bombs, landmines and unexploded ordnance (Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)).
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Defusing bombs, landmines and unexploded ordnance (Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)).
sometimes i wonder 2008
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Defusing, not inflaming, the anti-abortion community's anger is the best long-term defense of a woman's right to choose.
Frank Schaeffer: Abortion: Healing or New Culture War? The Choice is Obama's 2009
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Defusing an upsetting incident or our memories of it requires working not only with the upsetting image of the other person involved, but also with the deceptive appearance of us and of our upsetting feeling.
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Defusing 'dynasty' talk Patriots 'Belichick plays down idea of long-term reign.
USATODAY.com 2007
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Promoted to Headline (H4) on 5/13/09: Defusing Citizen Outrage yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Defusing Citizen Outrage'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: When Americans protest -- and they\'re not protesting very much (on the eve of the Iraq war, the French had more people in the streets than did the whole of the citizenry of the United States) -- the system today isn\'t geared to listen, or, rather, is geared more handily to ignore the noise.'
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