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2 unusual facts about The Bomb


JAQ

J was the composer and DJ for the off-broadway smash hit musical comedy, The Bomb-itty of Errors.

The Bomb-itty of Errors

The music was written by JAQ and the show was directed and developed by Andy Goldberg.


Noise By Numbers

Noise By Numbers is pop punk band featuring Dan Schafer (Screeching Weasel, the Queers, the Methadones, Sludgeworth) and Jeff Dean (The Bomb, All Eyes West, Four Star Alarm, The Story So Far, Dead Ending).

The Black Sheep Band

The record was recorded by Jeff Dean of Million Yen Studios (and also guitarist for The Bomb, Noise By Numbers, Dead Ending, Explode and Make up and All Eyes West).


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1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision

Based on a hydrologic survey, the bomb was thought by the Department of Energy to lie buried under 5 to 15 feet (2 to 5 m) of silt at the bottom of Wassaw Sound.

Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island.

1985 Narita International Airport bombing

The bomb was intended for Air India Flight 301, with 177 passengers and crew on board, bound for Bangkok International Airport.

1993 World Trade Center bombing

Furthermore, Yousef is said only to have considered adding cyanide to the bomb, and to have regretted not doing so in Peter Lance's book 1000 Years for Revenge.

2005 Delhi bombings

According to The Hindu website, the eyewitnesses claim that the bomb was placed in a white colour Maruti van whose front and rear mirrors were shattered due to the explosion.

Appointment in London

As the crew board the Lancaster the large 4,000 lb "cookie" bomb that is part of the bomber's load, slips from the bomb shackles and injures one of the crew.

ARA Narwal

A boarding party of British SBS men reached the target via a Sea King Mk.4 of 846 Naval Air Squadron and captured the ship dead in the water, taking off all of the men, and the body of Omar Alberto Rupp, the boatswain of the Argentine trawler, killed by the impact of the bomb.

Baxterville, Mississippi

The Project Salmon blast was about one-third as powerful as the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

Bombing Hitler's Dams

The splash of the bomb hitting the water struck the tail of the Douglas DC-4, although there was no major damage.

In their tests Buffalo Airways pilot Arnie Schreder flew a Douglas DC-4, with the bomb attached underneath, towards a recreation of the Möhne dam, which was specially constructed on Lake Williston, Canada for the test.

Boulder International Film Festival

Director Andrew Quigley received a Special Jury Prize for his documentary "Diameter of the Bomb."

Canal Hotel bombing

In January 2005, a top bombmaker for Zarqawi's group, Abu Omar al-Kurdi, was captured by the coalition and claimed his associates made the bomb used in this attack.

Charles R. Pellegrino

Veterans of the 509th Operations Group, the Air Force unit which dropped the atomic bombs, issued a detailed list of substantive problems with many of the book's claims about the bomb and the Air Force personnel involved.

Chasing Trouble

Using lesson two, of his correspondence course on graphology, Frankie learns the truth; but, it might be too late for intrepid investigative reporter Callahan (Milburn Stone) and the police to help them, before the bomb they’re supposed to deliver goes off, at an airplane factory.

Dexter Masters

A series of radio programs on the bomb earned Masters a Peabody Award in 1963.

Ebberston

The bomb hailed from a 'Whitley Mark V Bomber', of the No. 102 Squadron RAF, based at RAF Linton-on-Ouse which crash landed on October 27, 1940, with all personnel having bailed out and survived.

Erwin Meister

Because a Mebo timing device was alleged to have been used to trigger the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on 21 December 1988 killing 270 people, Erwin Meister was summoned to give evidence in week 8 of the Lockerbie trial.

Every Kilometer

The main characters are Nikola Dejanov, played by Stefan Danailov and Dimitar Bombov, nicknamed "Mitko Bombata" (Mitko the Bomb), played by Grigor Vachkov.

Gérard Royal

Le Parisien quoted Antoine as saying "...he was called upon in 1985 to go to New Zealand, to Auckland Harbour, to sabotage the Rainbow Warrior. Later, he told me that it was him who planted the bomb on the Greenpeace ship".

Gustav Ludwig Hertz

In his first meeting with Lavrentij Beria, von Ardenne was asked to participate in building the bomb, but von Ardenne quickly realized that participation would prohibit his repatriation to Germany, so he suggested isotope enrichment as an objective, which was agreed to.

Harbinger of Apocalypse

The bomb exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, killing the Harbinger, but Cable was saved by a group of time travellers.

History of the Teller–Ulam design

On November 1, 1952, the Teller-Ulam configuration was tested in the "Ivy Mike" shot at an island in the Enewetak atoll, with a yield of 10.4 megatons (over 450 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II).

Hold It Now, Hit It

The song contains samples from "The Return of Leroy" by The Jimmy Castor Bunch, "Drop the Bomb" and "Let's Get Small" by Trouble Funk, "Funky Stuff" by Kool & The Gang, "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" by Bob James, "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow and "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh.

Israel and the Bomb

Interviews include Avner Cohen (author of the book "Israel and the Bomb", 1999), Gideon Remez, Isabella Ginor (author of the book "Foxbats over Dimona"), journalist Peter Hounam, Martin van Creveld, Avi Primor.

Ivy King

On November 16, 1952 at 11:30 local time (23:30 GMT) a B-36H bomber dropped the bomb over a point 2,000 feet (610 m) north of Runit Island in the Enewetak atoll, resulting in a 500 kiloton explosion at 1,480 feet (450 m).

James O'Donovan

When Mountbatten was aboard en route to Donegal Bay, the bomb was detonated just a few hundred yards from the shore.

Joe Kieyoomia

Kieyoomia was a POW in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombing but survived, reportedly having been shielded from the effects of the bomb by the concrete walls of his cell.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

The committee's important contribution (originating with Rose) was a reduction in the size of the firing gun for the Little Boy atomic bomb, a concept which eliminated additional design-weight and sped up production of the bomb for its eventual release over Hiroshima.

Kaneto Shindo

He met Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the plane which dropped the bomb, but was not able to interview him on film.

Kfar Saba – Nordau Railway Station

Eleven days later, on 24 April 2003, a suicide bomber approached the new train station and activated the bomb he was carrying, murdering Alexander Kostyuk, the security guard who had prompted him for identification, and wounding 13 others.

London Hilton bombing

Having notified Scotland Yard which immediately sent three officers to investigate, but they were not able to evacuate the building before the bomb exploded at 1218 BST.

Lorne Saxberg

Saxberg received an Edward R. Murrow Award award for his work on the coverage of the 60th anniversary of the bomb at Hiroshima.

Mactan-Cebu International Airport

Authorities later found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb on the airliner to test the bomb for his Project Bojinka plot.

Muqaddar

Just when he is going to activate the bomb, he sees S.K.Khurana accompanied with his wife Bharati (Moushumi Chatterjee) and his daughter Pooja (Simran).

Novo-Konyushenny Bridge

In 1975, the new ferroconcrete bridge was built, and it was named Grinevsky Bridge, after Ignacy Hryniewiecki - the assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, who threw the bomb into tzar's cart near the location of the modern bridge.

Nuclear program of Saudi Arabia

In October 2013, Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, told a conference in Sweden that if Iran got the bomb, "the Saudis will not wait one month. They already paid for the bomb, they will go to Pakistan and bring what they need to bring."

Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade

The second attack was on the part-time station at The Birches, County Armagh, and it began by driving a JCB digger with a 200 lb (91 kg) bomb in its bucket through the reinforced fences the RUC had in place around their bases, and then exploding the bomb and raking the police station with gunfire.

Proxy bomb

2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rangers, was posthumously awarded the QGM as he tried to warn his comrades about the bomb rather than running for cover.

River Below

In the MuchMusic edition, the bomb blows and there is a larger, more graphically visual, explosion.

Scott Pask

Additional credits include On an Average Day (West End) and Tales From Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse) both directed by John Crowley; Bash (Almeida Theatre, New York, Los Angeles, and Showtime); Albert Herring (Opera North U.K); The Underpants, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show (NY, London, Edinburgh, Cambridge), Slanguage, The Gimmick, Love's Fowl, The Beginning of August, Refuge.

Srbská Kamenice

On 27 January 1972, Serbian stewardess Vesna Vulović was the only person on board to survive the crash of JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 after Croatian Ustašas set up the bomb, which exploded 10,160 meters (33,000 ft) above Srbská Kamenice.

Tennessee Slim Is the Bomb

Later released on March 28, 2006, Tennessee Slim Is the Bomb was originally supposed to be for sale via live shows and her official website, but after first day sales surpassed close to the amount of CDs printed it was made available to retailers which included Amazon.com, CD Baby, Rhapsody/Real Media Music Store, Napster, & iTunes.

The Bomb Party

In 1984 Farmlife split up, and Andy "Jesus" Mosquera (vocals), Steve Gerrard (guitar), Mark Thompson (drums) formed The Bomb Party, with Sarah Corina (bass).

The Holy Cows

In 2013, The Holy Cows and four other FRC teams lead the 87th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, including: Team 16; The Bomb Squad, Team 180; S.P.A.M., Team 25; Raider Robotix, and Team 1477; Texas Torque.

William McGhee

He was among the soldiers exposed to atmospheric nuclear testing at Yucca Flats, Nevada to measure the bomb's consequences.

William Poundstone

Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb (1992)

Zero Wing

This introductory scene was translated by Sega of Europe to English from Japanese rather poorly for the European release (a phenomenon dubbed Engrish), resulting in dialogue such as "Somebody set up us the bomb", "All your base are belong to us", and "You have no chance to survive make your time".

Ziad Hamzeh

He directed and or produced over sixty major award winning stage productions, among them Roxy Ventola’s After The Bomb, Brecht’s Baal, Sam Shepard’s True West, Arrabel’s Car Cemetery, Hamlet, Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre, Nicholas Kazan’s Blood Moon, Poor Murderer, The Architect and Empress of Assyria, Cinders, Low Level Panic, and Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi.