pressure cooker bomb

Homemade kitchen explosive

A pressure cooker bomb is an improvised explosive device made from a household pressure cooker filled with explosives and shrapnel.

The sealed container builds pressure until detonation, maximizing destructive force.

Such devices gained notoriety after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Instructions for building them have appeared in terrorist publications.

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Sealed pot using steam

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Steerable self-propelled weapon

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Fortified underground refuge

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Family

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