2022
2021
June (1)
March (1)
February (1)
January (1)
2020
Tue, 1st: Explosive Devices on the Moon.
November (4)
Thu, 19th: Development of Mechanical Explosive Initiators in the early 16th Century
Mon, 9th: “Not in the Habit of Buying Bat Guano”
Sat, 7th: Book Review – The Secret Horsepower Race
October (3)
Sat, 10th: Update – Majendie and the “Crime of the Century” bomb
Fri, 9th: Echoes of the Past – Beirut Explosion and Erith, 1864
August (2)
Thu, 27th: The Russian IED connection
July (1)
June (1)
May (1)
April (1)
March (3)
Sat, 7th: Strategic IED campaign on railways 1899-1902
Wed, 4th: Two-Ton Boer Train VBIED 1902
February (7)
Tue, 25th: Execution by Gunpowder
Mon, 24th: An explosive device in Whitehall
Mon, 10th: German WW2 use of ROVs to deliver explosives
Sun, 9th: Command-Initiated IED – 1809 – Peninsula War
Sat, 8th: Chinese 16th Century Ship-Borne IED
Wed, 5th: German Explosive Remote-Control speedboats of WW1 and WW2
2019
Mon, 21st: Palestine 1935 -Arab and British IEDs
Tue, 1st: HMS Barham – Magazine explosion
September (2)
Sat, 7th: Lt Finch, Proto-ATO
August (7)
Mon, 26th: A wire to pull a trigger
Sat, 24th: EOD “Industry” cartoon 1913
Wed, 21st: More “Stay behind” devices
Mon, 19th: Colin Gubbins – Gamekeeper turned Poacher
Tue, 13th: Never New, Fact and Fiction
Wed, 7th: Tremble! – The Answer to the Mystery Device
July (4)
Fri, 5th: Mystery Object Challenge
Fri, 5th: Lord Rothschild and the German-American Saboteurs -1942
Tue, 2nd: Senior officers and explosive investigation don’t mix
June (5)
Wed, 26th: A Missing Link – IED designs being passed through history
Fri, 7th: The first Anti-Tank Mine – an IED
Thu, 6th: IED Innovation… or not
Sat, 1st: Guy Fawkes, MI6 and the NKVD
May (5)
Mon, 27th: This man made IEDs that blew up dozens of British trains
Fri, 24th: Chemical render-safe techniques for explosives -1926
Mon, 13th: Command initiated explosive device from 1582
Sat, 4th: The 55th device – 1578 – The force is mighty and commeth with such a terror
April (11)
Fri, 26th: Russian WW2 Radio Controlled Explosive Device
Thu, 25th: EOD Vehicles for moving IEDs
Mon, 22nd: Detecting Tunnellers with Dried Peas
Mon, 15th: Ghostbusters
Sat, 13th: Meester’s Ship IEDs of 1695
Fri, 12th: Book Review – The Price of Paradise by Iain Overton
Wed, 10th: Two IED attacks on police during WW2
Tue, 9th: Railway attack on British troops – 1948
Wed, 3rd: Attacking the Tsar’s train with IEDs, 1879
Tue, 2nd: A railway bomb in Watford, 1880
March (1)
2018
September (1)
August (1)
May (2)
Wed, 2nd: The history of metal-cased military rockets – an investigation
April (2)
Tue, 3rd: Discovering London’s bomb disposal facility from 1894
March (2)
Fri, 2nd: A peculiar Heavy Water journey
February (8)
Sun, 25th: More railway IED attacks from history
Sun, 25th: Investigating Zeppelin Bombs – WW1 Tech Int
Sun, 25th: D’Oyly-Hughes’s IED
Sat, 24th: The US Navy Sub that destroyed a train, with an IED
Mon, 19th: Bomb Alleys
Sun, 11th: IEDs from 1630
Thu, 8th: Suffragette Bombs, 1912 – 1914
2017
Wed, 21st: Bomb Disposal at the Movies
May (2)
Tue, 16th: Attacking Railway Lines with IEDs using Firearm Initiation Systems
April (3)
Fri, 21st: Westminster – an Explosive Past in a 100m Radius
Fri, 21st: Intriguingly Similar Designs of Improvised Munitions Over Decades
2016
October (1)
August (2)
Wed, 24th: More Black Box Thinking
July (1)
May (2)
Mon, 16th: EOD and Black Box Thinking
April (3)
Fri, 15th: Command-initiated IED described in 1650
Thu, 14th: Irish Republican Improvised Mortar Design – 1920
February (5)
Tue, 16th: The language of IEDs
Mon, 15th: Clocks, locks, energy and initiation
Mon, 8th: Improvised Artillery
Tue, 2nd: Mystery Sabotage Device, 1918
January (2)
Thu, 7th: Rockets, again
2015
Tue, 22nd: If I had a hammer
Fri, 18th: Report of IEDs in the Crimea, 1855
September (1)
August (2)
Mon, 3rd: Warsaw IEDs
July (3)
Mon, 13th: It’s a Cracker!
Sat, 11th: History lessons
January (2)
Fri, 2nd: Warflour, Paxo and Irish Cheddar
2014
November (1)
September (9)
Sun, 21st: Early Bomb Squad Protective Clothing
Sat, 13th: Augmented reality and explosive initiation – an historical mystery
Thu, 11th: How gun locks were used in IEDs for over 250 years
Tue, 9th: Extensive IED Campaign in the USA
Thu, 4th: Early equipment for X-raying IEDs
Wed, 3rd: Spanish naval troopship destroyed by an IED?
Tue, 2nd: When a bomb squad moves fast…
Mon, 1st: April 6, 1588 – a Dutch ship borne IED
August (1)
July (1)
June (2)
Wed, 18th: Things that have happened before
May (2)
Mon, 26th: USS Intrepid – Another ship-borne massive IED
April (1)
February (1)
2013
Thu, 5th: The IED Technology of Propaganda of the Deed, 1884
November (4)
Wed, 13th: Eccentric Military Umbrellas – Part 2
Thu, 7th: The Mystery of Dundonald’s Destroyer, a WMD developed in 1811.
Sun, 3rd: Left, Right, Anarchist and Nut Job
October (2)
Mon, 14th: Weirder than weird – Fake bomb detectors now used by Hezbollah
September (2)
Tue, 17th: Kurt Jahnke: the legendary German saboteur
July (7)
Thu, 11th: Eccentric Military Umbrellas
Wed, 10th: Multiple suicide bomber attacks in 1904 or 1905
Tue, 9th: A most unusual IED attack from the Russo-Japanese war
Thu, 4th: An American terrorist in England
Tue, 2nd: Coal Torpedoes
Mon, 1st: Alexander Keith and the Crime of the Century bomb
June (1)
May (1)
March (3)
Tue, 5th: You only live once. But if you get it right, that’s enough
Mon, 4th: 400 years of IED design – and you end up with the same device
February (6)
Tue, 12th: US C-IED and counter booby-trap efforts on the Battlefield – 1918
Tue, 12th: Booby trap IEDs on the Battlefield – 1918
Mon, 11th: Bombing Hitler – A lone-wolf bomber in 1939
Mon, 11th: Bomb Suit, 1933
Mon, 11th: Chinese River IED of 1857
January (6)
Sun, 20th: Bombs in bodies – cross post on IMSL Insights
Tue, 15th: Weapon Technical Intelligence in 1855
Tue, 8th: Parisian Infernal Machines from about the time of Les Miserables
Sat, 5th: A Booby Trap IED from 1630
Thu, 3rd: Syrian FSA EOD techniques
2012
Fri, 28th: The mystery of “the man with no history”, other spies and Emmet’s rockets and IEDs
Thu, 27th: Woosh, Bang, Ohnasty!
Mon, 24th: Revolution and Invention – Comparing Syria in 2012 with Ireland in 1803
Mon, 24th: The Russian Jacobi Fuze – 1854
Mon, 24th: Confederate IED organization
Sun, 23rd: The First Internal Combustion Engine – went with a bang
Sat, 8th: Prince Rupert’s IED
Sat, 8th: EOD Tool from late 1700s
Sat, 8th: Pull Primers
Thu, 6th: IED Triggers
Sun, 2nd: USS Cairo Gunboat Sunk by an IED Euring EOD Operations by a One-armed IED Maker
November (8)
Tue, 27th: Matchlocks, Samurai, Money and a Pretty Girl
Mon, 26th: Some of my best friends are Sappers… (Sappers, Doctors, explosives and smoking dope)
Sun, 18th: Inventing Detonators
Sun, 18th: Combined EOD and munition repurposing!
Sat, 3rd: Alchemy and High Explosives
Fri, 2nd: Blowing Up Railway Bridges in Virginia
Fri, 2nd: The mystery of Ralph Rabbards and strange historical munitions
October (5)
Sun, 14th: The Yildiz VBIED, 1905
Fri, 5th: The Curious Death of Louis Lingg
Thu, 4th: IED technical Intelligence in the 19th Century.
Tue, 2nd: Big IEDs in Ships
September (3)
Wed, 26th: Siemens Tangents – Command Wire IEDs of 1848
Mon, 24th: Explosives Protecting Surveillance Devices and Micro IEDs
August (1)
July (1)
June (5)
Wed, 13th: Pipe Smoking – Counter-Terrorist EOD in 1974
Sun, 10th: Early Chinese Victim-Operated IEDs
Fri, 8th: Martini-Henry and Other IED Initiation Systems
Wed, 6th: Garland’s first IED attack
May (1)
April (2)
Sat, 7th: Assessing Threats of Terrorism – cross post
February (6)
Tue, 14th: Oops! Bangkok terrorist plots have been known to fail before.
Mon, 13th: Ripples from Iran
Sun, 12th: 100 years since British suffragettes used IEDs
Sun, 5th: Insight Blog
Thu, 2nd: Bombs in lavatories
January (8)
Sat, 28th: US Technical Intelligence on IEDs – 1856
Wed, 25th: Booby trap IED in Florida – “Naught but a dead opossum”
Sun, 22nd: Massive Explosion in New Jersey
Thu, 19th: The British Spy who became an officer in the American Army and then a senior IRA military commander
Tue, 17th: New York’s IED Task Force 1905-1919
Sat, 14th: The EOD operator who dealt with more IEDs than anyone else
Fri, 13th: Hezbollah threat – vbied?
2011
Sat, 3rd: Early history of command wire electrically initiated IEDs
Fri, 2nd: Time for some amateur bomb damage assessment.
November (4)
Fri, 4th: Things you can’t do in a bomb suit.
Thu, 3rd: EOD Psychology – Playing Doctors and Nurses
Tue, 1st: EOD Operators are not rational
October (9)
Fri, 28th: The curious case of Professor Mezzeroff – IED expert, terrorism proponent and New York liquor salesman
Mon, 24th: Bomb Technicians and Psychology
Fri, 21st: X-raying IEDs – in the 1890s
Tue, 18th: IEDs in the American Civil War
Tue, 11th: Why do Bomb techs do stupid things? PART TWO
Sun, 9th: Why do Bomb Techs do stupid things?
Fri, 7th: Copycat IED attacks – 100 years apart
Tue, 4th: Complex IED attack circa 1584
September (5)
Fri, 16th: The media and terrorist bomb making
Sat, 10th: Old and bold
Fri, 9th: History Repeating Itself
Mon, 5th: Historical use of IEDs
August (2)
Tue, 2nd: Ah, the gentry….
May (1)
April (1)
February (1)
January (1)
2010
October (2)
Fri, 8th: Bloody few are violinists…
September (2)
Tue, 14th: Right out of a spy movie
August (1)
July (2)
Sat, 10th: Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
May (2)
Wed, 12th: Learning terrorism
April (1)
March (1)
January (1)
2009
October (1)
September (1)
August (3)
Wed, 5th: Testing intuition
Sat, 1st: More on Training
July (4)
Wed, 29th: Bomb psychology again
Tue, 28th: Bomb Technician Training And Psychology
Fri, 17th: Bomb Technician Training
June (2)
Sat, 27th: Hezbollah’s international capability
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