Sentence examples for a working bomb from inspiring English sources

The C.I.A. device lacked a fuse and other parts that would make it a working bomb, intelligence officials said.

The international estimate concerned fuel and did not assess whether the North could convert it into a working bomb.

Having concluded that only a shock to the national psyche can force real action, Mowatt-Larssen dreams up a plan befitting a Tom Clancy novel: the "Armageddon Test," a scheme to dispatch undercover teams around the world to purchase enough black-market nuclear material for a working bomb.

Probably not". Olli Heinonen, a former deputy director general of the IAEA, said Iran may lack the precision engineering capabilities needed to build a working bomb.

Yes, it's true that manufacturing a working bomb from binary liquid ingredients smuggled onto an aircraft would be an infeasible (though theoretically possible) thing to do.

To this day, even after North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests, no one is sure whether the country's engineers actually know how to make and deliver a real, working bomb.

They can't build a working car bomb, they can't blow up their own pants on a plane, or they just wind up blowing up themselves.

After Shrewsbury school, he graduated from Oxford University in 1940, and during the second world war was a conscientious objector working on bomb disposal with the Royal Engineers in London.

One day as she was working a bomb went off in her hands.

"We worked a bomb a month," Lipka recalled.

The dust that is left behind after an explosion can reveal a good deal about how a bomb works, with different radioactive isotopes signalling different processes.