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  2. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    It has since been set backward 8 times and forward 17 times. The farthest time from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest is 90 seconds, set in January 2023. The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in January 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [5]

  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. The use or attempted use of time bombs has been for various purposes including insurance fraud, terrorism, assassination, sabotage and warfare. They are a frequent plot device in thriller and action films as they offer a way of imparting a dramatic sense ...

  5. Ahmed Mohamed clock incident - Wikipedia

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    The episode arose when Mohamed reassembled the parts of a digital clock in an 8-inch (20 cm) [1] pencil container and brought it to school to show his teachers. His English teacher thought the device resembled a bomb, confiscated it, and reported him to the principal. The local police were called, and they questioned him for an hour and a half.

  6. Trigger Point (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    With seconds left on the bomb’s timer, Lana desperately attempts to unlock the door. Danny rushes in when it hits 20 seconds and convinces her to get out before it detonates, killing the captured man. Lana shares her experience with her friend, Karl. She also has an outburst at one of her colleagues, John Hudson, blaming him for not getting ...

  7. Countdown - Wikipedia

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    Countdown. A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur. NASA commonly employs the terms "L-minus" and "T-minus" during the preparation for and anticipation of a rocket launch, [1] and even "E-minus" for events that involve spacecraft that are already in space, where the "T ...

  8. Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    Flight paths of the four planes used on September 11. 7:59 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with registration number N334AA, carrying 76 passengers (excluding the hijackers) and 11 crew members, departs 14 minutes late from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport.

  9. Nuclear close calls - Wikipedia

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    A B-36 accidentally dropped a bomb just south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Due to safety measures the plutonium core was not mounted to the bomb at the time but rather stored elsewhere in the plane, preventing a nuclear detonation. The conventional explosives created a 7.6 m (25 ft) wide crater on impact.