He said he once supplied electronic detonators to Stasi, the East German intelligence agency.
India also claims that on January 4 this year, two Bangladeshi nationals, who admitted belonging to HuJI, were arrested in New Delhi carrying 1.42kg of explosives, four electronic detonators and two hand grenades thought intended for the Republic Day celebrations.
With the application of electronic detonators, which have a minimum delay and a delay accuracy of 1 ms, a new blasting pattern using short-delay intervals is proposed in the present study in order to improve rock breaking and control blast-induced vibrations in cutting blasting with single free surface in underground mines.
The FSB said it conducted a series of raids on Sunday in the city of Yekaterinburg, located in the Ural Mountains about 900 miles east of Moscow, and uncovered a "laboratory for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), explosives, electronic detonators, firearms, grenades, IED components [and] extremist literature".
Vibrations generated due to detonation of explosives with shock tubes and electronic delay detonators have been recorded in underground openings for comparative assessment.
Sandia's technicians also found that the physical evidence did not support the U.S. Navy's theory that an electronic or chemical detonator had been used to initiate the explosion.
In its report, however, the U.S. Navy concluded that the evidence did not show that Hartwig was homosexual but that he was suicidal and had caused the explosion with either an electronic or chemical detonator.
The analyses are based on test results of the accuracy and precision of electronic and pyrotechnic detonators for typical firing times used in a surface coal mine, but may be applied to a variety of mines and timing scenarios.
Technically true, but one should note that the restrictions were changed very quickly to allow computers back on board, despite the alleged risk of using an electronic device as a detonator.
This spilled into the open in 1985, when Richard K. Smyth, a California aerospace engineer, was indicted on charges that he'd illegally exported 800 krytrons, electronic switches used as detonators in nuclear weapons, to Israel in the early 1980s.
