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  2. Pencil detonator - Wikipedia

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    The briefcase bomb used in the July 20 plot used a captured British pencil detonator inserted into a block of British plastic explosives weighing approximately two pounds. The bomb was set to 30 minutes and detonated as planned, but Hitler survived with minor injuries. Stauffenberg could not prepare the second block, though. He got rid of it ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Delay-action bomb - Wikipedia

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    A delay-action bomb is an aerial bomb designed to explode some time after impact, with the bomb's fuzes set to delay the explosion for times ranging from very brief to several weeks. Short delays are used to allow the bomb to penetrate before exploding: "a delay action bomb striking the roof of a tall building will penetrate through several ...

  5. Time bomb (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... A time bomb is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. Time bomb, Time Bomb, or ... This page was last edited on 15 ...

  6. Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia

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    The Trinity bomb was officially a Y-1561 device, as was the Fat Man used later in the bombing of Nagasaki. The two were very similar, though the Trinity bomb lacked fuzing and external ballistic casing. The bombs were still under development, and small changes continued to be made to the Fat Man design. [59]

  7. Time bomb (software) - Wikipedia

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    The first use of a time bomb in software may have been in 1979 with the Scribe markup language and word processing system, developed by Brian Reid.Reid sold Scribe to a software company called Unilogic (later renamed Scribe Systems [2]), and agreed to insert a set of time-dependent functions (called "time bombs") that would deactivate freely copied versions of the program after a 90-day ...

  8. No. 15 ball grenade - Wikipedia

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    The No. 15 was first widely used in the Battle of Loos.Tacticians envisioned that the No. 15 would be useful in breaching German defenses and trench clearing. [3] The No. 15 was used because production of the No. 5 "Mills bomb" was running seriously behind planned figures, and not enough of them could be supplied before the start of the Loos campaign.

  9. Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! - Wikipedia

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    When Shaggy's old dog Zoinks returns, Scooby begins to become jealous of him, and finds his previous owner Groovy Don. Little do they realize, both Zoinks and Groovy Don were created by Phibes to split Shaggy and Scooby, causing them to find the true meaning of friendship when Zoinks and Groovy Don attack them.