Why the Bombers Failed

I spent one summer during my college years mainly learning how to cut down trees for a construction firm with a power saw. However, during one slack period my boss loaned me out to be the assistant to a blaster clearing wetlands by blasting ditches for runoff. I learned how very simple it is to blow up things.

Without specifying details, one merely needs 3 things: 1) some device (usually electrical) to set off 2) a detonator which in turn explodes 3) whatever blasting materials that will get the job done. On my first day at work we had a problem. A blast that we had set up did not go off when my boss cranked a generator designed to send the electrical charge to the detonator. My boss instructed me to go and check the connections. I said, "no way!" My boss said, "smart kid" and went to get his car battery, which properly attached to the wires, set off our explosion, blasting a long line of dynamite sticks and a trench many feet deep and long that began to drain off the waste water as intended.

The moral of this tale is that any one of the 3 ingredients for setting off a bomb can fail. Most likely the materials prepared for the London bombing today were somehow faulty and were not -- thank G-d -- set off by the detonators. May we get so lucky again!
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