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During the Cold War, West Berlin was completely surrounded by East Germany. The Berlin Wall sealed the city...and its waste.
While food and supplies could be transported in from West Germany, there was no way West Berlin could send its waste all the way through East Germany and over the…
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On October 1st, last year a mass pageant was held in Beijing to celebrate the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The spectacle included 8,000 handpicked soldiers, 1,300 military band musicians, a choir of 2,400 singers, 80,000 school students, 60 floats, 50,000 balloons, aircraft , missiles, armored vehicles and…
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1) Hanford Nuclear Waste Site, Washington, USA contains approx 2, 100 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel and 8 tonnes of plutonium. The site is about 1518 square kilometres.
2) Murmansk, Murmansk, Russia. Undisclosed tonnage. The port holding the former Soviet Union's aging nuclear submarines.
3) Kola Peninsula, Murmansk, Russia. Undisclosed…
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During the early 1990s, giant guillotines in Tuscan, Arizona cut up and destroyed about US5.5 billion dollars worth of B-52 bombers. These were the B-52G bomber.
In today's terms, each B-52G bomber cost about US30 million dollars to build. Over 190 were built. Of these about 10 were placed into…
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