| Type
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Information
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Date created
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Inventor
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place of origin
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| Barrel bomb
|
Improvised aerial bomb
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1948
|
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Israel
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| Blockbuster bomb
|
"High capacity" bomb for maximum blast effect, only used during World War II
|
April 1941
|
|
United Kingdom
|
| Bouncing bomb
|
Skips across water; designed to attack German dams in World War II
|
April 1942
|
Barnes Wallis
|
United Kingdom
|
| Bunker buster
|
The first type were Röchling shell
|
1942
|
August Coenders
|
Germany
|
| C4
|
|
1956
|
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| Car bomb
|
A vehicle is packed with explosives and detonated.
|
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| Cluster bomb
|
Over a hundred nations outlaw them now. The first one was Butterfly Bomb
|
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|
Germany
|
| General-purpose bomb
|
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| Glide bomb
|
|
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| Guided bomb
|
|
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| Improvised explosive device
|
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| Land mine
|
Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations.
|
1832
|
|
Ming Dynasty
|
| Laser guided bomb
|
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| Molotov cocktail
|
Improvised incendiary grenade often made in a beer bottle
|
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| Nail bomb
|
|
1970
|
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| Pipe bomb
|
|
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| Pressure cooker bomb
|
the pressure of the pressure cooker places high explosive power
|
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| Smoke bomb
|
|
1848
|
|
United Kingdom
|
| Stink bomb
|
Stink bombs range in effectiveness from simple pranks to military grade or riot control chemical agents.
|
1943
|
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|
| Suicide vest or suicide bomber
|
|
|
|
China
|
| Suitcase bomb
|
Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase.
|
1950s
|
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| Thermometric bomb
|
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| Time bomb
|
|
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| Trinitrotoluene
|
Commonly known as TNT
|
1863
|
Julius Wilbrand
|
Germany
|
| Unguided bomb
|
|
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|
| MOAB
|
Massive Ordnance Air Burst. Colloquially known as the Mother of All Bombs.
|
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|
United States
|
| FOAB
|
Father of All Bombs
|
2007
|
|
Russia
|
| Electromagnetic bomb
|
|
1962
|
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| Napalm bomb
|
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| Dirty bomb
|
scatters radioactive material
|
|
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| Nuclear bomb
|
|
1945
|
J. Robert Oppenheimer
|
United States
|
| Tsar Bomba
|
|
October 1961
|
|
Soviet Union
|
| Cobalt bomb
|
A nuclear bomb designed to spread as much radiation around as possible
|
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| Hydrogen bomb
|
second-generation nuclear weapon design using non-fissile depleted uranium to create a nuclear fusion reaction
|
1952
|
Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam
|
United States
|
| Neutron bomb
|
A nuclear weapon designed to destroy with lethal radiation while not damaging structures.
|
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| BLU-82
|
Used for creating clearings in forested areas
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