The effort was spearheaded by notable scientists such as the late David Hawkins, an assistant to A-bomb designer J.
The U.S. scientists who made the first uranium A-bomb, dubbed "Little Boy, " were so sure that it would work they did not bother to test it.
Once the most-hyped secret invention since the A-bomb, code-named It and Ginger, the Segway sprang from the almost impossibly fertile mind of medical technology innovator Dean Kamen (who, it's worth noting, didn't do the hyping himself).
And the second one - and it's not in there - is there's a time-bomb in the tax code.
"Remicade is considered by many physicians to be a nuclear-bomb-type treatment, " says Walsh at Jefferies.
Aldridge said the test in Nevada involved dropping a laser-guided bomb into a tunnel and exploding it with a delayed fuse.
"People didn't know if it was a nuclear-bomb facility, " says William Butterly about the temporary arch-shaped, steel-and-fabric hoop barn he had to build in his Fairfield, Conn.
IRA. Republicans were also blamed for a petrol-bomb attack late on July 10th on an isolated Orange Hall near Portadown, which risked the lives of six parade organisers meeting inside.
He will be highly vulnerable: Mr Kadyrov's assassination was only the latest in a series of attacks, among them a car-bomb in December 2002 that destroyed the Chechen government headquarters in Grozny.
And technology yielded the first major break: Police found photos and even a surveillance video of the two suspects toting backpacks -- each ostensibly loaded with a pressure-cooker bomb -- at the marathon's home stretch.
"It's the major problem--a sort of time-bomb for Uruguay, " says Dr. Martha Pelaez , a regional adviser on aging and health at PAHO.
"It's all kind of blurry for a moment, because when a 500-pound bomb goes off a few feet from your position, there's a lot going on, " Jones said.
When the Soviets ended the agreement in 1961, the U.S. blew a 1, 280-foot-wide crater into the Nevada desert with a 104-kiloton bomb.
Some of the detection and removal is left to divers from Fort Lauderdale-based Titan Maritime who found a 250-pound bomb inside one of the many shipwrecks.
Authorities later announce that they recovered a pressure-cooker bomb after the pursuit into Watertown, a source briefed on the ongoing investigation said.
When U.S. marines in Iraq round up a group of suspicious characters, lately they've been introducing them to a bomb-sniffing handheld device called Fido.
Police in Northern Ireland discovered a 600-pound bomb in County Armagh, which was thought to be the work of a dissident republican group.
What did happen was that the Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber, dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Transformers Director Michael Bay then became one of the Bad Boys by dropping a Pearl Harbor-sized bomb on Paramount regarding its decision in a blog post since deleted and retracted, leading to speculation it was really the Decepticon version of Michael Bay that made the original posting.
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Some senior commission officials fret about a ticking time-bomb of populism, waiting to be triggered by special-interest groups.
One possible defense application: Identify the receptors that dogs use to detect explosives, clone them and create a bomb-sniffing machine.
The Israeli prime minister was not interested in relying on intelligence assessments to alert the world to a bomb-making programme.
Last weekend's attack on Glasgow airport and a mid-week bomb scare at Heathrow's Terminal 4 seem to presage another summer of strain.
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Later, a former White House physician, Connie Mariano, said she worried his weight made him a "time-bomb" at risk of dying in office.
It hastened the end of World War II, which concluded within a week after the dropping of a plutonium-based bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9.
With every gully an almost impenetrable trench, and every boulder a bomb-proof bunker, it is very easy to defend and almost impossible to advance through.
Three members of a bomb-disposal squad were killed in 2010 when the device they were trying to defuse in the German town Gottingen went off.
When she stood 14 years ago one commentator described the candidate originally from north Belfast as "a tribal time-bomb" - he has since changed his view.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy in Tripoli early Tuesday morning, injuring two French security guards and a local girl, officials said.
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