By R. Jeffrey Smith, Joby Warrick and Colum Lynch Center for Public Integrity
The National Park Service isn't taking any chances if it comes across Civil War explosives. Officials at Petersburg National Battlefield have a new policy. If they find Civil War ordninance, call the bomb squad.
Shells from North spur troops to return fire SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean troops returned fire Wednesday after North Korea launched artillery shells into waters near the disputed maritime line that separates the two rivals, South Korean defense officials said.
Perspective is everything. Just in case you are having a bad one, here is my humble perspective: I will not whine; I'll take America any day. I turned my alarm off this morning and heard the sound of birds chirping, not artillery shells falling.
PUEBLO - An army of construction workers is nearing completion of a factory to destroy nearly 800,000 mustard gas shells stored in Colorado. At the Pueblo Chemical Depot, about 50 miles southeast of Colorado Springs, the 1950s-era artillery and mortar shells have been stored in hardened bunkers. There have been 101 leaks in the 780,000 shells stored.
The 111th Congress has been discredited by its arrogant disregard for the public and has been repudiated at the polls. President Obama and his allies in the Senate are, nonetheless, trying to use the lame-duck session to get a "zombie Senate" to foist on the American people right before Christmas a dangerous New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia. There are compelling reasons why the handful of Republican senators who will decide whether this treaty is approved in its present form - under artificially constrained circumstances that allow minimal opportunity for informed debate - should just say no. Some of the most compelling include: * The treaty would leave the Russians with thousands more nuclear weapons than the United States when their 10-to-1 advantage in "tactical" arms is fac...
True story: Lee Duncan, a California native once abandoned by his dad and consigned to a children's home by his mom, becomes a gunnery corporal for the 135th Aero Squadron in World War I. On the fateful morning of Sept. 15, 1918, while inspecting the ruins of a German encampment in Fleury, France, Duncan encounters the exploded rubble of a concrete kennel. Inside are the torn corpses of 20 army dogs killed by artillery shells and six live ones: a frightened German shepherd female and her starving pups. He rescues them, finding homes for four and taking two, all he can handle, back with him to California after the Armistice. Duncan names the pair Rin Tin Tin and Nanette, after then- popular good luck dolls representative of lovers who miraculously survived the bombing of a Paris railway ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The only ambulance service in war-torn Mogadishu said Wednesday that more than 4,200 bystanders have died in warfare the last two years, and a U.S. group that works to prevent civilian deaths said Somalia is more dangerous for civilians than Afghanistan or Iraq. The seaside capital sees frequent barrages of mortars, rockets and artillery shells fired between Islamist insurgents like al- Shabab and pro-government forces who protect the sliver of land controlled by the U.N.- and U.S.-backed Somali government.
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