Training comes courtesy of the FBI in Huntsville, Alabama, at the Army's Redstone arsenal. Sgt William Briley of the Atlanta PD Bomb knows what he's talking about. He used to be a bomber for the military, blowing up bridges in Vietnam. Now, Americans should prepare for bombings. And most would work.
Movies show the most impressive fiction.
They show sophisticated triply booby trapped high tech explosives with digital detonators. And from a small pipe bomb comes a HUGE, city block-busting fireball. That wouldn't help. There's no standard for an improvised device. And what about Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon.