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  2. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    It has since been set backward 8 times and forward 18 times. The farthest time from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest is 89 seconds, set in January 2025. The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [6]

  3. Pencil detonator - Wikipedia

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    The briefcase bomb used in the July 20 plot used a captured British pencil detonator inserted into a block of British plastic explosives weighing approximately two pounds. The bomb was set to 30 minutes and detonated as planned, but Hitler survived with minor injuries. Stauffenberg could not prepare the second block, though. He got rid of it ...

  4. Time bomb - Wikipedia

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    A time bomb (or a timebomb, time-bomb) is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. ... Two limpet mines, set to detonate 10 minutes apart 1985

  5. What is the 'Doomsday Clock'? - AOL

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    The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 89 seconds to midnight, is displayed before a news conference at the United States Institute of Peace, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 ...

  6. The Doomsday Clock reveals how close humanity may be to total ...

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    Scientists just set the new time for 2025. ... the code name for the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. ... the hand moved the farthest away from midnight — a whopping 17 ...

  7. Israel used US-made bomb in attack on Hezbollah head, US ...

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    Mark Kelly, chair of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee, said Israel used a 2,000-lb (900-kg) Mark 84 series bomb, during an interview with NBC. "We see more use of guided munitions ...

  8. Nuclear warfare - Wikipedia

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    The Doomsday Clock reached high points in 1953, when the Clock was set to two minutes until midnight after the U.S. and the Soviet Union began testing hydrogen bombs, and in 2018, following the failure of world leaders to address tensions relating to nuclear weapons and climate change issues. [19]

  9. Fuze - Wikipedia

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    Time fuzes detonate after a set period of time by using one or more combinations of mechanical, electronic, pyrotechnic or even chemical timers. Depending on the technology used, the device may self-destruct [21] (or render itself safe without detonation [22]) some seconds, minutes, hours, days, or even months after being deployed.