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  2. Time bomb - Wikipedia

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    A time bomb's timing mechanism may be professionally manufactured either separately or as part of the device, or it may be improvised from an ordinary household timer such as a wind-up alarm clock, wrist watch, digital kitchen timer, or notebook computer. The timer can be programmed to count up or count down (usually the latter; as the bomb ...

  3. Improvised explosive device - Wikipedia

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    These devices would detonate the bomb if it was moved in any way. Typically, the safety-arming device used was a clockwork Memopark timer, which armed the bomb up to 60 minutes after it was placed [92] by completing an electrical circuit supplying power to the anti-handling

  4. Four-minute warning - Wikipedia

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    The four-minute warning was a public alert system conceived by the British Government during the Cold War and operated between 1953 and 1992. The name derived from the approximate length of time from the point at which a Soviet nuclear missile attack against the United Kingdom could be confirmed and the impact of those missiles on their targets.

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  6. Ahmed Mohamed clock incident - Wikipedia

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    Bill Maher said on his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher that Mohamed deserves an apology but that his clock "looks exactly like a fucking bomb". In the same "Real Time" interview, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, one of the panelists on the show, stated that he called Mohamed on the phone to discuss the event and Mohamed's interest in technology ...

  7. The Last Alarm (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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    Jim and Frank go after the arsonist, who has lost his bureau tail. The arsonist goes to the basement of the Hadley house where he plants a time bomb. He goes upstairs and confronts Mrs. Hadley and Joan, and as Jim and Frank realize he may be back at their house—having been seen in the vicinity—the bomb goes off and the basement catches fire.

  8. Beware the retirement savings 'time bomb,' tax expert warns - AOL

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    The time bomb is the tax embedded in every traditional IRA and 401(k) account that is tax-deferred. ... The minute you get those funds into tax-free vehicles, they grow and compound for you. Ed ...

  9. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    It has since been set backward 8 times and forward 18 times. The farthest time from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991, and the closest is 89 seconds, set in January 2025. [5] The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [6]