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Attachment in adults

Attachment in adults: stable patterns of security or insecurity in close relationships, measured dimensionally (attachment anxiety and avoidance) or as categories (secure, anxious/preoccupied, dismissing, fearful) via the AAI and ECR.

Attachment parenting

Attachment parenting, a childrearing philosophy created by pediatrician William and Martha Sears and popularized by The Baby Book (1992), promotes breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and baby wearing; API's Eight Principles organize it, and it conflicts with AAP bed-sharing guidance.

Attachment theory

Attachment theory, founded by John Bowlby and expanded by Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure, explains how infant-caregiver bonds form, classify as secure, avoidant, resistant, or disorganized, and shape later relationships; contested for Western cultural bias.

Attachment therapy

Attachment therapy: umbrella term for treatments aiming to improve children's attachment relationships, from evidence-based caregiver interventions to condemned coercive holding and rebirthing methods linked to deaths.

Attack aircraft

Attack aircraft, also known as strike aircraft or ground-attack aircraft, are military airplanes designed primarily to strike ground targets, especially in direct support of friendly forces.

Attack Attack! (American band)

Attack Attack! is an American metalcore/electronicore band from Westerville, Ohio, formed in 2007 as Ambiance, behind the 2008 'crabcore' MySpace trend, three albums, a 2013 hiatus, a 2020 reunion, and Attack Attack! II (2025).

Attack dog

An attack dog is a dog trained to attack a person on command or on detecting an intruder, an official US military working-dog classification during World War II.

Attack helicopter

Attack helicopter (NATO designation AH): a military rotorcraft purpose-built to employ guided anti-armor, air-to-ground, or air-to-air weapons with integrated fire control. Key types: AH-1 Cobra, AH-64 Apache, Mi-28, Ka-52, Tiger, WZ-10; distinct from armed utility or scout helicopters.

Attack models in quantum key distribution

Attack models in quantum key distribution are formal descriptions of an eavesdropper's capabilities, ranging from individual and collective to coherent attacks and practical device-level attacks like photon-number splitting, Trojan-horse injection, and detector blinding.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 American black-and-white sci-fi film directed by Nathan Juran (credited Nathan Hertz), starring Allison Hayes as heiress Nancy Fowler Archer, who grows giant after an alien encounter; a cult classic remade for HBO in 1993.

Attack of the Dead Men

Attack of the Dead Men: German chlorine (possibly with bromine) gas assault on Russia's Osowiec Fortress, 6 August 1915, repulsed by the gas-burned 13th Company counterattack under Kotlinsky; fortress abandoned weeks later.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 American comedy-horror film spoofing 1950s creature features, directed by John De Bello on a budget under $100,000.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence (2026) is the fifth Killer Tomatoes film, directed by David Ferino, written by Costa Dillon and J. Stephen Peace, starring John Astin as Professor Gangreen; released theatrically August 7, 2026 and on VOD October 6, 2026.

Attack of the Show!

Attack of the Show! (AOTS), G4's live tech, gaming, and pop-culture talk show, ran March 28, 2005 to January 23, 2013 with hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn, was revived in 2021, and is profiled in the 2023 documentary Attack of the Doc!.

Attack on Mers-el-Kébir

Attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Operation Catapult): British Royal Navy bombardment of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir near Oran, Algeria, on 3 July 1940, killing over 1,200 French sailors after France's armistice with Germany.

Attack on Paul Pelosi

Attack on Paul Pelosi: October 28, 2022 home invasion in San Francisco in which David DePape, seeking Nancy Pelosi, struck her 82-year-old husband with a hammer; federal 30-year and state life sentences followed.

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Attack on Pearl Harbor: the Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise carrier air raid of December 7, 1941 on the US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, with 350 planes in two waves, killing over 2,400 Americans and bringing the US into World War II.

Attack on Reginald Denny

Attack on Reginald Denny: the April 29, 1992 beating of white truck driver Reginald Denny at Florence and Normandie during the LA riots, televised live, and the 1993 trial of Damian Williams and Henry Watson.

Attack on Shaista Khan

The attack on Shaista Khan was a 1663 night raid by Shivaji on the Mughal general's residence in Pune, wounding the Khan and killing his son.

Attack on Sydney Harbour

The Attack on Sydney Harbour was a Japanese raid on the night of 31 May 1942 in which three midget submarines entered the harbor and sank HMAS Kuttabul, killing 21 sailors.

Attack on the Moncada Barracks

Failed July 26, 1953 assault by Fidel Castro and about 160 rebels on the Moncada army garrison in Santiago de Cuba, also Bayamo; birth of the 26th of July Movement and the Cuban Revolution.

Attack on the Sui-ho Dam

The Attack on the Sui-ho Dam was a United Nations air operation of the Korean War, begun on June 23, 1952, that bombed five North Korean hydroelectric plants.

Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad

The December 31, 2019 attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, also called the embassy siege, was a storming of the compound by Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces supporters after U.S. airstrikes killed 25 Kata'ib Hezbollah fighters, leading to the Soleimani strike.

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人)

Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga by Hajime Isayama, serialized from 2009 to 2021, about humanity fighting man-eating Titans behind enormous walls.

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人) (film)

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN) is Shinji Higuchi's 2015 two-part Japanese live-action adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga, starring Haruma Miura, shot on Gunkanjima, earning ¥3.25 billion for part 1.

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人) (season 4)

Attack on Titan: The Final Season (進撃の巨人 The Final Season) is season 4 of the anime, produced by MAPPA under director Yuichiro Hayashi after WIT STUDIO's seasons 1–3; it aired December 2020 to November 2023 in parts, ending the series at 94 episodes.

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人) (TV series)

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人, Shingeki no Kyojin), Isayama's dark-fantasy anime, 2013–2023, 94 episodes by WIT Studio then MAPPA, adapting all 139 manga chapters; walls, Titans, and Eren's Rumbling.

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人) (video game)

Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人), also released as A.O.T. Wings of Freedom, is Omega Force's 2016 hack-and-slash action game published by Koei Tecmo for PS4, PS3, Vita, Xbox One, and PC, featuring ODM-gear titan combat; not to be confused with its 2018 sequel or the 2026 Attack on Titan 3.

Attack on Titan: Before the Fall (進撃の巨人 Before the Fall)

Attack on Titan: Before the Fall (進撃の巨人 Before the fall) is a prequel light novel trilogy by Ryo Suzukaze and a 17-volume manga by Satoshi Shiki, set 70 years before the main manga and telling the origin of the Vertical Maneuvering Equipment through Kuklo, the 'Titan's son'.

Attack on Titan: End of the World (進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド)

Attack on Titan: End of the World (進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド) is Shinji Higuchi's 2015 Toho live-action sequel concluding the two-part adaptation of Isayama's manga, starring Haruma Miura, released September 19, 2015, with mixed-to-negative reviews.