Homemade bombs, fitted with wires and timers, exploded in a series of crowded places: at a railway station, outside a movie theater, near two landmark buildings, and two on the Gandhi Maidan grounds, where Mr. Modi was preparing to speak, according to Abhayanand, the state's director general of police.
As Coster-Mullen described how the different parts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs fit together, I felt that I could practically assemble an atomic weapon myself.
Military officers and experts on terrorism said the bombing fit a pattern of recent strikes on water and oil pipelines and the Jordanian Embassy, although they emphasized that it was too early to uncover any connections among the attacks.
To find out how the use of this bomb fits into the larger geopolitical scene right now, I talked to Faisel Pervaiz, who analyzes South Asian affairs for the Austin, Texas-based military intelligence firm Stratfor.
Such bombs are fitted with small wings and adjustable fins that give the bomb some in-flight maneuverability by means of gliding.
Instead, some bombs were fitted with whistles on the fin to produce the noise after release.
The Dorniers were to carry twenty 110-lb bombs each fitted with a fuse that would allow for function if released from 50 feet or higher; the type of bomb previously used by the Staffel had to release from twice this height, making the unit's Do 17s correspondingly more vulnerable to ground fire.
One of the penalties of working on Northern Ireland was that I had to have a bomb alarm fitted to my car.
Visionary-turned-pablum-producer Luc Besson here relocates 2004's nifty parkour-based actioner District 13 to a crime- and cliche-ridden Detroit, where cop Paul Walker (in his last completed role) and the original's David Belle are pursuing a megaton bomb, helpfully fitted with digital countdown clock.
Devised by Royal Navy Captain Edward Terrell, the bomb was fitted with solid-fuel rockets to accelerate its descent, giving it an impact speed of 990 mph and hence the ability to penetrate 16 feet of solid concrete before detonating.
The bombs could fit into a large van and, if exploded in downtown Manhattan, might cause tens of thousands to a hundred thousand deaths, Mr. Albright said.
