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[Ed Carp]

On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, jim bell wrote:

> At 07:13 PM 2/17/96 +0000, Ed Carp wrote:
> >On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, jim bell wrote:
> >
> >> BTW, I think I've already solved the problem of producing a few dozen 
> >> absolutely simultaneous trigger explosions (+/- 100 nanoseconds) around the 
> >> periphery at the lens foci, without using multiple electronic detonators.  
> >> (in fact, a single blasting cap would do nicely.)  "But the margins of this 
> >> book are too small to contain it"  Heh heh!
> >
> >Actually, it's a quite simple problem to solve.  Tom Clancy used a rather 
> >more complicated method, but the idea was correct.
> 
> You might be surprised:  I have never read anything by Clancy.  Tell me,
> what method did HE use?

A single electronic timer.  The lengths of wire from the timer/detonator
to each piece of explosive was exact - thus, the pulse reached each piece
of explosive at the same time. 

I think Clancy used multiple timers, each triggered at the same time.  I
don't think that one would need but one timer, though. 
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