In an extraordinary intelligence coup, the double agent left Yemen last month, traveling by way of the United Arab Emirates, and delivered both the innovative bomb designed for his aviation attack and inside information on the group's leaders, locations, methods and plans to the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi intelligence and allied foreign intelligence agencies.
The mission grew out of a concept for a bomb designed by Barnes Wallis and developed by his team at Vickers.
The militarised villages and farmlands of south Armagh were close by, where IRA teams built the bombs designed for Bishopsgate and Canary Wharf, and the last British soldier to die during the Troubles, Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick, was shot by a sniper, just a year before the Good Friday Agreement.
But in a statement to The Huffington Post, Donald Sachtleben insisted he wasn't the first person to tell the news organization that the U.S. government had obtained a suicide bomb designed by a bomb maker for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
He had been arrested, said John Ashcroft, the attorney-general, while on a trip to identify targets for a "dirty bomb" (a conventional bomb designed to spray radioactive dust over parts of a city).
(The Internet makes exporting a bomb design as easy as pressing the send button).
Like Libya, they may have been given a bomb design too.
The Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 revived interest in the field of radioecology which has now become important for understanding the potential effects of the detonation of a terrorist bomb designed to spread radioactive contamination.
Thermonuclear warhead, also known as nuclear warhead, thermonuclear (fusion) bomb designed to fit inside a missile.
The RAF's Jaguars gained several new weapons during the Persian Gulf War, including CRV7 high-velocity rockets and American CBU-87 cluster bombs which were used because the RAF's existing BL755 bombs were designed for low-level release, and therefore unsuitable for higher-altitude operations common over the Persian Gulf.
