Bomb Squad
Did You Know?
- Only James Bond and TV police go into a building where a bomb is planted to cut wires. Human life is more important than a building. "Disarming" a bomb is incorrect; Bomb Technicians conduct Render Safe Procedures (RSP).
- It's a felony to make and use a homemade bomb or to possess bomb-making materials.
- Homemade bombs are called Improvised Explosive Devices (IED's). Because their design, materials, and filler are only limited by the imagination of their creator, they are often considered more dangerous than commercially made ordnance or explosives.
- An explosive pressure wave moves at about 13,000 mph from the point of explosion.
- HMX, one of the fastest explosives, if poured into a garden hose 4.5 miles long, will travel that distance from one end to the other in one second if detonated.
- Black powder in Revolutionary, Civil War, WWI and II ordnance is as explosive and volatile today as it was when it was made. Don't play around with "heirloom" ordnance!
- Treat every suspicious package, object, or "novelty" ordnance as the real deal, because often it is!
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