Tagged: military

Brabus B63S for the police of Dubai (26 pictures)

Brabus have revealed the Brabus B63S 700 Widestar Dubai Police Edition at the Dubai Motor Show 2013. Brabus have tuned the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG to produce an awesome 700 hp, yet the reason Brabus chose to display it in Dubai is due to the “Tune it! Safe” campaign.

Drug Cartel Members on Facebook (16 pictures)

Members of Mexico’s drug cartels are really starting to harness the power of the internet, using it to run positive PR campaigns, post selfies with their pistols, and hunt down targets by tracking their movements on social media.

Private prisons: How US corporations make money out of locking you up

Today the US is home to 5% of the world’s population but a quarter of the world’s prisoners. It also has the highest rate of youth imprisonment and on any given day there are more than 70,000 youths in detention. And the biggest winners of this mass incarceration? The for-profit prison companies whose business models essentially depend on locking more and more people up.

What If We Detonated a Nuclear Bomb on the Moon?

The U.S. Air Force considered trying to detonate a nuclear device on the moon during the late 1950s. A physicist who worked on the project said a single explosion would have been “microscopic,” with little impact. But what if the plans had been bigger—do we have enough nuclear weapons to push the moon out of orbit?

Photos of Nuclear Bombs Tests (20 pictures)

Since the time of Trinity – the first nuclear explosion in 1945 – nearly 2,000 nuclear tests have been performed. Most of these occurred during the 1960s and 1970s. When the technology was new, tests were frequent and often spectacular, and they led to the development of newer, more deadly weapons.

Lets see images from the first 30 years of nuclear testing.