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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 ...
On 16 November 2021, suicide bombers set off two powerful explosions in the center of Uganda's capital Kampala during rush hour in an attack later claimed by Islamic State. There have been a number of bomb explosions in 2021. In October, a 20-year-old waitress was killed after a device, left in a shopping bag, detonated in a bar in the city.
Hiroshima was the primary target of the first atomic bombing mission on 6 August, with Kokura and Nagasaki as alternative targets. The 393rd Bombardment Squadron B-29 Enola Gay, named after Tibbets's mother and piloted by Tibbets, took off from North Field, Tinian, about six hours' flight time from Japan, [126] at 02:45 local time. [127]
Works of fiction, such as the television series 24, often rely on ticking time bomb scenarios for dramatic effect. According to the Parents Television Council, given that each season represents a 24-hour period, Jack Bauer encounters someone who needs torturing to reveal a ticking bomb on average 12 times per day. [17]
An hour after the bomb was detonated, U.S. Air Force pilots took off from Enewetak Island to fly into the atomic cloud and take samples. Pilots had to monitor extra readouts and displays while "piloting under unusual, dangerous, and difficult conditions” including heat, radiation, unpredictable winds and flying debris.
There’s a gap in the official White House phone notations given to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot— from about 11 a.m. to about 7 p.m., according to two people familiar with ...
At around 2:05 p.m. Korean Standard Time (05:05 UTC), [4] nine hours after the bomb had been planted and near the end of the flight, the bomb detonated and the aircraft crashed into the Andaman Sea) eighteen miles (16 nmi; 29 km) west of the Burmese coast, killing all 115 on board. The pilot transmitted his final radio message shortly before ...
They asked that all polling places on the Navajo Nation in Apache County be kept open until 9 p.m., rather than their slated 7 p.m. closing time. – Karissa Waddick More: Election Day in Arizona ...