Improvised Explosive Devices

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    Inside The Blast: Part 3: On The Frontiers Of Brain Science

    April 11, 2012 by Sharon Adams
    Lieutenant-Colonel Dan Drew has seen any number of soldiers blown up by IEDs (improvised explosive devices). He was one of roughly 200 Canadians embedded with an Afghan brigade of 3,000 in Kandahar province for seven months in 2008, a time when “there were a lot...
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    Left Of The Boom

    January 19, 2009 by Adam Day
    Left Of The Boom. ILLUSTRATION: ©Greg Stevenson/www.i2iart.com The feeling has been described by survivors as falling. Also as soaring. There’s a flash and a shrieking darkness and then the weightless moments of maximum kinetic terror when the detonation blasts you beyond gravity. After the boom there...