In contrast, the primitive bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had explosive yields of 15 kilotons and 22 kilotons, respectively.
Likewise, the home-grown terrorists of the Victorian age were armed with mere revolvers and primitive bombs; lethal nerve gas was not an option.
The four, who are believed to be Iraqi intelligence officers, tried to burn down the top-floor executive lounge of the Grand Hyatt Amman Hotel with a primitive incendiary bomb, but the hotel's sprinkler system quickly extinguished the flames.
It is laughable to suggest that the ever more complex and costly high-tech weaponry we continue to build is needed to defeat an opponent armed with the box cutters used by the 9/11 hijackers or a primitive roadside bomb set off by an Iraqi insurgent.
Regarding his switch from being a reformer of the system to developing a means of taking it down, he said: Kaczynski's activities came to the attention of the FBI in 1978 with the explosion of his first, primitive homemade bomb.
President George W. Bush left office with North Korea likely having five or six primitive nuclear bombs and a determination to build a strong nuclear deterrent.
There were also reports of battles fought with primitive gunpowder bombs like the incendiary huopao or the exploding tiehuopao, incendiary arrows, and other related weapons.
Seven years and five months later, the biggest fears of American soldiers revolve around the primitive, basic, homemade bombs and old explosives in Afghanistan that were left over from the Soviet invasion.
Several of the accused are also charged with planting the primitive but horribly effective bombs used in the campaign, mostly butane gas canisters stuffed with nails and set off with basic alarm clocks.
The article thoughtfully supplied full details in a diagram that would enable almost any experimenter to build a primitive but effective E-bomb.
