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In the United Kingdom , there are more than 5,000 glassing incidents each year.1 In 2000, following a series a glassing incidents in Manchester , Greater Manchester Police and the Manchester Evening News launched a campaign ''Safe Glass Safe City'' promoting the use of toughened glass in pubs and clubs to prevent such attacks.2 IN SCIENCE FICTION The term "glassing" is also used in some works of Science Fiction to refer to bombarding an area, e.g. with nuclear ordnance or fictional high-powered energy weapons (such as those often found on Starships in such works), with enough energy to indiscriminately annihilate everything in a target area (typically at least the size of a few city blocks) and even fuse topsoil into glass. For example in 'Starship Troopers' the term Glassing is used to refer to what the Federation Fleet does to the surface of the planet, destroying most life on the surface, before sending in Mobile Infantry to destroy or 'mop up' the remainding survivors. See Glass Parking Lot . REFERENCES FURTHER READING |
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