WOW.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: alarm clock radio gun safe

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Gun safe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_safe

    An example (open and closed) of a typical gun safe. A gun safe is a safe designed for storing one or more firearms and/or ammunitions.Gun safes are primarily used to prevent access by unauthorized or unqualified persons (such as children), for burglary protection and, in more capable safes, to protect the contents from damage by flood, fire or other natural disasters.

  3. Nuclear weapon design - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

    The U.S. name, Alarm Clock, came from Teller: he called it that because it might "wake up the world" to the possibility of the potential of the Super. [40] The Russian name for the same design was more descriptive: Sloika (Russian: Слойка), a layered pastry cake. A single-stage Soviet Sloika was tested as RDS-6s on August 12, 1953.

  4. Ahmed Mohamed clock incident - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident

    Ahmed Mohamed clock incident. On September 14, 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing a disassembled digital clock to school. The incident ignited allegations of racial profiling and Islamophobia from many media sources and commentators. The episode arose when Mohamed reassembled the ...

  5. Radium dial - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_dial

    Radium dial. A 1950s radium clock, exposed to ultraviolet light to increase luminescence. Radium dials are watch, clock and other instrument dials painted with luminous paint containing radium-226 to produce radioluminescence. Radium dials were produced throughout most of the 20th century before being replaced by safer tritium -based luminous ...

  6. Multiservice tactical brevity code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiservice_tactical...

    Radio frequency is becoming saturated, degraded, or jammed and briefer transmissions must follow. Broadcast Request/directive to switch to broadcast control. Broke lock Loss of radar/infrared (IR) lock-on (advisory). Bruiser Friendly air-launched anti-ship missile (AShM) (for example, Harpoon, Exocet, or Penguin missiles). Buddy lock

  7. Dead Hand - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_hand

    Dead Hand, also known as Perimeter (Russian: Система «Периметр», romanized: Sistema "Perimetr", lit. '"Perimeter" System', with the GRAU Index 15E601, Cyrillic: 15Э601), [1] is a Cold War–era automatic nuclear weapons control system (similar in concept to the American AN/DRC-8 Emergency Rocket Communications System) that was constructed by the Soviet Union. [2]

  1. Ads

    related to: alarm clock radio gun safe