Had Brody detonated his suicide vest and killed the vice president, the show would have been an indelible, beautifully finite piece of television.
But during attempts to persuade another two to surrender, one detonated an explosive belt and killed himself and three of the border guards – one of whom was the commander of northern border forces, General Oudah al-Belawi.
Uche's car was less than 10 metres from a car packed with explosives which detonated in a teeming business district in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday afternoon.
The bomb was detonated on Thursday at a congested checkpoint near a bus station where two weeks ago an explosion claimed by the Islamic extremists Boko Haram killed at least 75 people.
From 1951 to 1962 the AEC detonated more than 100 bombs, sending huge pinkish plumes of radioactive dust across the stony valleys and canyons of southern Utah and northern Arizona.
Eleven bombs were detonated in 1953, including several between March and June that coated St George and other towns in grey dust.
At the heart of the plan was the "gas limos project" in which three stretch limos would be packed with explosives, left in underground car parks and detonated in a series of synchronised blasts.
One had a bomb strapped to her body that detonated as she was being scanned at the entrance gate, he said.
Breivik detonated a bomb in Oslo on 22 July last year, targeting government headquarters before embarking on a killing spree on the island of Utøya, where young political activists had gathered for a summer camp.
Above-ground testing paused in 1959 and briefly resumed in 1962, after which it went underground, where hundreds more bombs were detonated (including some on behalf of Britain's nuclear programme) until a moratorium in 1992.
On the morning of 19 August, the first of three flat-bed trucks carrying three large 1000-litre watanksanks, each filled with explosives, detonated on an overpass outside the Finance Ministry in south-eastern Baghdad.
