Sentence examples for bombs small from inspiring English sources

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Basit thought that he could build electronically controlled bombs small enough to smuggle aboard airliners.

But it's the little items – fertilizer-based bombs, small arms and the like – that routinely cause problems demanding outsize resources to combat.

He told McBee that he'd spoken up at company board meetings about unconventional threats, such as "dirty" bombs, small "artillery nukes," and anthrax.

The yield of the detonations has increased with each test, but international experts have disputed North Korea's repeated implication that it has succeeded in making its bombs small and sophisticated enough for missile delivery.

Instead of the car bombs of the past, the current weapons of choice are hit squads equipped with guns fitted with homemade silencers, or "sticky bombs" small but deadly explosives attached to vehicles with adhesives or magnets.

But it has yet to demonstrate that it can produce nuclear bombs small enough to place on a missile, or missiles that can reliably deliver their bombs to faraway targets.

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Intelligence analysts believe a goal of the test was to devise a bomb small enough to fit on a missile.

Analysts doubted that North Korea had mastered the technology needed to make a nuclear bomb small enough to mount on a missile.

Two key steps are miniaturisation – making a bomb small enough to fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) – and perfecting the latter.

In another application, a famous nuclear scientist once suggested it could be used as a component in a neutron bomb small enough to fit in a sandwich-size paper bag.

"You're bombing small groups of people who are highly mobile," Mr Brannen said.

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