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Understanding the Las Vegas shooter

WASHINGTON — The motive of the man who went on a shooting rampage in Las Vegas, killing 59 and wounding more than 500 people, is still unknown.

On this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green, Tricia Bacon, an assistant professor at American University, talks about some of the unusual aspects related to the shooting. Tricia Bacon, an assistant professor at American University, talks about some of the unusual aspects related to the shooting.

WTOP photo tour: Historic nuclear power plant at Fort Belvoir to be dismantled

The red button was always there — just in case. Most people never knew the United States' first nuclear power reactor to provide sustained electricity to a commercial power grid was — and is — on the grounds of Fort Belvoir, the U.S. Army installation in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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