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use up oxygen from the surrounding air to produce a high-temperature explosion of a significantly longer duration than that of a traditional blast. They are so powerful that they can instantaneously vaporize human bodies and destroy the internal organs of anyone nearby.
“They will kill not just in the direct vicinity of the impact,” Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and CIA officer,“It [will] suck the oxygen out of the air and out of the lungs of people nearby. It is horrendous.”News of the deadly thermobaric weapons being used by Russia first surfaced on Monday when Ukraine's ambassador to the United States sounded the alarm.
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