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Russian Nuke Sub Ablaze

VOA News 29 December 2011

A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire Thursday, but officials say there was no radiation leak and no one was injured.

The fire on the Yekaterinburg submarine happened while the vessel was docked for repairs in the northern Murmansk region.

The Russian Defense Ministry said all of the submarine's weapons had been unloaded before the repairs and its reactor had already been shut down. The Delta IV class vessel is able to carry 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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Hot Spots of Afghanistan (Maps)

Sometimes, words can express reality and sometimes you need a graphic, a map to show what and where you mean.  In this map, the most deadly areas of Afghanistan are darkest reds:

 

Maps - Afghanistan

With the renewed focus on the first battleground in the War On Terror, Afghanistan, a reader has correctly suggested that some readers may be less familiar with some of the terrain and locations that often come up in discussions on this site.  Other readers will be intimately aware of these areas in question and perhaps even recall the fine talcum dust so prevalent there.

In the fine tradition of military style traditions, I'll begin with the one over the world. (Afghanistan is the green spot.)

Clearly, it is on "the other side of the world," but as we look closer, we can see some of the challenges: