Among the most common types are blast (demolition), fragmentation, general purpose, antiarmour (armour-piercing), and incendiary (fire) bombs.
Structural engineers have been assessing the site since Sunday and, after discussions with the fire service, demolition team and insurers, the demolition started at 15 30 GMT.
She and Ms. Radcliffe often hear about murals lost to "fire, abandonment, demolition, wallpapering, overpainting or overzealous 'restoration,' " they write.
The paper reports on an experimental programme to investigate the global structural behaviour of a compartment in the three-storey steel frame building in a plant of the Mittal Steel Ostrava exposed to fire before demolition.
Before the fire, the demolition of the bank tower was supposed to be completed at the end of 2007 at a total cost that was already tens of millions of dollars over the original $75 million budget.
"Only a revenge-seeking fool could believe that eliminations and missile fire, the demolition of neighborhoods, the killing of soldiers and civilians and the destruction of homes could restore personal calm and security," it said.
Asked by a computer to choose among possible front-page articles on mutant frogs, a warehouse fire, the demolition of City Hall, a rising river and an impending game for a girls' basketball team, this reporter selected the fire and the rising river, earning onscreen kudos ("Excellent work!") from Michael Gartner, a former president of NBC News and former editor of The Daily Tribune in Ames, Iowa.
It has survived previous fires, partial demolition during the second world war, fighting between mods and rockers, and concerts by the Rolling Stones, Who, and Jimi Hendrix.
The new construction is barely enough to replace homes lost through fires and demolition, according to P. Gilbert Mercurio, chief executive of the Westchester County Board of Realtors.
