When defusing a bomb, why can’t you just cut all wires at once?
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There was an interesting case of a non-disarmable bomb used in an extortion plot against a Las Vegas Casino.
Edit: not Las Vegas, Stateline, Nevada.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey’s_Resort_Hotel_bombing
Cutting all the wires at the same time sounds easy, but electricity travels at the speed of light. How could you be sure every wire were cut at exactly the same time, even if they were all organized in a nice bundle making them easy to cut?
Just to add to all the right answers here: when dealing with electricity it’s technically not possible to cut all wires at once because electric current is pretty fast.
Even a very small delay between the cutting of two wires allows to set the trigger off if it is designed to explode when tampered with.
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