I would have appreciated it if you'd sent this to me privately, or at least didn't enclose my message to you (which was sent in private email). Among other reasons, it is rather off-topic (unless one wants to count it among bomb information available on the net). -Allen From: IN%"jimbell@pacifier.com" "jim bell" 19-FEB-1996 00:58:39.66 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 10:25 PM 2/18/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:

I've been kind of busy recently (the reason I haven't responded to the more recent Assasination Politics stuff), but I'm curious what your method is for achieving simultaneous explosions.

"Multiple very thin flexible hollow tubes (1 mm ID? teflon?) filled with a homogenous liquid explosive (for example, pure nitromethane), length accurately cut to produce the exactly desired delay. Kept separated from each other by foam spacers to avoid inter-fiber detonations. Detonated from a single cap, with an intermediary chamber of liquid explosive to stabilize the shock front, the detonation wave travels along each tube simultaneously at (presumably) identical velocity." It's a race, designed so that the detonation waves reach their targets (the foci) at the same time. If the detonation velocity was, say, 5,000 meters per second, an accuracy of 0.5 millimeter in length would produce a delay accuracy of 100 nanoseconds. Whatcha think? Now where did I put that pit... <G> Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com Klaatu Burada Nikto -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMSgFwvqHVDBboB2dAQGzYAQAksCklKTJ80tr+YuASwzt6KRMVgqivydf wjYP9GL5Bo3HeXxEgOB8Xg6gnO9aOdDxMfMKiR0SdodE4V4kiy2y671jPofNz800 Y0YHzKnLcLuZzvnExGkhtLDQLigqDdNWSdPgFItkJ/5TVXHrEfL7+paOmo2hbYKO 5hbuG7wZ9Hg= =6qoY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----