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* There was a Propaganda Bomb in an early episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''. A friendly fire bomb landed at the unit, and didn't explode. Hawkeye and his friends tried to disarm it but that just set it off, which is when they discovered it was only leaflets. The propaganda read:
{{quote|''Give yourselves up. You can't win. ''|Douglas MacArthur.}}
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[wikipedia:Airborne leaflet propaganda|Airborne Leaflet Propaganda]], often used during [[World War II]].▼
* Bombs filled with chaff (metal strips used to confuse radar).▼
* Any nuclear missile can be turned into a trick bomb of massive proportions when detonating it high in the atmosphere. All nuclear explosions create a certain electromagnetic pulse, which can damage nearby electronic equipment, which usually isn't that much of a problem when compared to the detonation itself. But when it goes of high in the atmosphere, the earth magnetic field amplifies the effect and could knock out entire countries or continents with a massive EMP blast.▼
* Stun, Incendiary, and Smoke Grenades.▼
* Stinger Grenades, which scatter dozens of little rubber balls upon detonation to stun and possibly incapacitate anyone caught in it's range.▼
* Tear gas grenades.▼
* Anti-handling devices (trick fuses intended to amputate the hand of a disposal tech) are often placed in bombs. It is probably even more common in movies than in real life as cool MacGyverish heroes can thereby be shown to do stunts. Whereas in real life it is often cost-effective simply to have auxiliary troops drop lots of fairly crude gadgets by the road and if one goes off before the mission is complete there are [[Cannon Fodder|more where that came from.]]▼
** As old saboteur Ilya Starinov noted in his memoirs, what worked best was combination of booby traps ''and'' decoy bombs -- the latter both fake (up to just very carefully carrying boxes with "explosives" into the evacuated houses they didn't rig and spending some time inside) and real, but cheaply made ones. He also was a proponent of visible mine laying, which is much the same on a larger scale -- the bumps are obvious even on air photo, but there are too many of these, and most are empty: so driving over them will cost tanks because some ''are'' real mines (even worse for tanks with low clearance, as they can push bumps with the bottom and may end up wrecked and/or with crew dead, rather than only mission-killed by losing some tracks and a wheel), shooting these is a prohibitively expensive waste of shells, defusing is dangerous (some are booby traps for the sweepers, and the whole place may be under fire) and ''very'' slow (every bump must be checked with full caution).▼
*** He mentioned using this to cover a bunch of radio controlled bombs in Kharkov (when it was obvious retreat from there is a matter of time), including the masterpiece of which he was particularly proud, set in a mansion on the order of [[Nikita Khrushchev]] currently residing there (even though Khrushchev was told what may happen should the next air raid hit too close). They (it took a bit over two days for six people before the site was ready to add explosives) dug a well, placing earth in enumerated bags to be put back in the correct layer order, made a niche under the foundation of a structural wall with radio equipment and enough explosives to hope they'll take out guards outside the building as well. And equipped it to be anti-tampering devices, indeed. But after that they put a time bomb they dubbed "spoonbait" under a pile of coal in the boiler room - with very fancy and dangerous-looking extras, which all would even work if not dry batteries. So the Germans found it, "disabled", and let the General move in...▼
*** As the editors' note to his memoir points out, in reality both sides had a habit of using POWs when booby traps were suspected.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* ''[[Stunt Dawgs]]'': The [[Weapon of Choice]].
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' had smoke, slime, and stink bombs in addition to the usual exploding type. And some that explode ''and'' stink.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[wikipedia:Airborne leaflet propaganda|Airborne Leaflet Propaganda]], often used during [[World War II]].
▲* Bombs filled with chaff (metal strips used to confuse radar).
▲* Any nuclear missile can be turned into a trick bomb of massive proportions when detonating it high in the atmosphere. All nuclear explosions create a certain electromagnetic pulse, which can damage nearby electronic equipment, which usually isn't that much of a problem when compared to the detonation itself. But when it goes of high in the atmosphere, the earth magnetic field amplifies the effect and could knock out entire countries or continents with a massive EMP blast.
▲* Stun, Incendiary, and Smoke Grenades.
▲* Stinger Grenades, which scatter dozens of little rubber balls upon detonation to stun and possibly incapacitate anyone caught in
▲* Tear gas grenades.
▲* Anti-handling devices (trick fuses intended to amputate the hand of a disposal tech) are often placed in bombs. It is probably even more common in movies than in real life as cool MacGyverish heroes can thereby be shown to do stunts. Whereas in real life it is often cost-effective simply to have auxiliary troops drop lots of fairly crude gadgets by the road and if one goes off before the mission is complete there are [[Cannon Fodder|more where that came from.]]
▲** As old saboteur Ilya Starinov noted in his memoirs, what worked best was combination of booby traps ''and'' decoy bombs -- the latter both fake (up to just very carefully carrying boxes with "explosives" into the evacuated houses they didn't rig and spending some time inside) and real, but cheaply made ones. He also was a proponent of visible mine laying, which is much the same on a larger scale -- the bumps are obvious even on air photo, but there are too many of these, and most are empty: so driving over them will cost tanks because some ''are'' real mines (even worse for tanks with low clearance, as they can push bumps with the bottom and may end up wrecked and/or with crew dead, rather than only mission-killed by losing some tracks and a wheel), shooting these is a prohibitively expensive waste of shells, defusing is dangerous (some are booby traps for the sweepers, and the whole place may be under fire) and ''very'' slow (every bump must be checked with full caution).
▲*** He mentioned using this to cover a bunch of radio controlled bombs in Kharkov (when it was obvious retreat from there is a matter of time), including the masterpiece of which he was particularly proud, set in a mansion on the order of [[Nikita Khrushchev]] currently residing there (even though Khrushchev was told what may happen should the next air raid hit too close). They (it took a bit over two days for six people before the site was ready to add explosives) dug a well, placing earth in enumerated bags to be put back in the correct layer order, made a niche under the foundation of a structural wall with radio equipment and enough explosives to hope they'll take out guards outside the building as well. And equipped it to be anti-tampering devices, indeed. But after that they put a time bomb they dubbed "spoonbait" under a pile of coal in the boiler room - with very fancy and dangerous-looking extras, which all would even work if not dry batteries. So the Germans found it, "disabled", and let the General move in...
▲*** As the editors' note to his memoir points out, in reality both sides had a habit of using POWs when booby traps were suspected.
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