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An array of World War 2 pencil detonators displayed at the Museum of the British Resistance Organisation at the Parham Airfield Museum, 2007. A pencil detonator or time pencil is a time fuze designed to be connected to a detonator or short length of safety fuse. They are about the same size and shape as a pencil, hence the name.
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 ...
The bomb can be triggered using a simple electronic device such as a digital watch, garage door opener, cell phone, pager, kitchen timer, or alarm clock. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The power of the explosion depends on the size of the pressure cooker and the amount and type of explosives used.
Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase. 1950s Thermometric bomb: Also called a vacuum bomb, or aerosol bomb, this explosive disperses a cloud of gas or liquid. Time bomb: A bomb that is triggered by the timer. Trinitrotoluene: Commonly known as TNT. 1863 Julius Wilbrand: Germany: Unguided bomb: An air-craft dropped bomb that lacks a ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... A time bomb is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. Time bomb, Time Bomb, or ...
B28 bomb — Only in the RE (retarded external), RI (retarded internal) and FI (full-fuzing internal) versions of the weapon. The RE and RI versions of the weapon used the W28 mod 1 warhead and were an interim weapon only capable of laydown delivery at 2,000 feet (610 m) altitude, while the FI version using W28 Mod 2 and later warheads was capable of 500 feet (150 m) delivery.
The "ticking time bomb scenario" is subject of the drama The Dershowitz Protocol by Canadian author Robert Fothergill. In that play, the American government has established a protocol of "intensified interrogation" for terrorist suspects which requires participation of the FBI , CIA and the Department of Justice.
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 ...