Talk:Bomb

message: ==Ord(i)nances==
Take a look at the picture text. It says "ordinance" - not ordnance, which is the correct word.--JRed July 7, 2005 16:32 (UTC)
Does anyone know who so very rudely put the farting comment in the first sentence? I edited it out. Secos5 17:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

message: What is the origin of the familiar stylized graphic of a black ball with a wick?  , for example. — Omegatron 01:24, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what the first hand grenades were. Kafziel 17:18, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stylized graphic 

message: Can someone please add a history section?  -- Added a small cross-ref to the Wall Street bombing incident, working on a more thorough-but-concise listing with no propaganda as noted below  =)  I have some very good ref material on the subject and should be able to add some good content. Cardigan379
Can someone please add a history section that's not anti-Japanese propaganda?  Japanese air attacks against Chongquing are repeatedly condemned as atrocities and mass murder when they caused something like half the number of casualties over -four years- as the RAF inflicted (conservatively) in two days over Dresden.  More people in Chongquing probably died from traffic accidents. Kensai Max 15:06, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The pronunciation of the word was added which is harmless and completely intelligible, and was considered vandalism. Is pronunciation considered vandalism?
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Hey there. I reverted the post in question for a few different reasons:
1. There was no edit summary, and at a quick glance appears to be jibberish.
2. It was not written in a standard pronunciation form, but in IPA phoenetics (which is less commonly used these days).
3. I did not believe that a phoenetical pronunciation was needed for a simple, common four letter word.
4. The author that added the phoenetics to the article had four previous warnings issued by other editors and bots, therefore by common sense, the user's change appeared to be nonsense also.
Chrisch 03:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation?

message: I was wondering why Attentat redirects here but hten is not referred to? An Attentat does not have to involve a bomb, so although it might involve a bomb, the link is a little tenuous. If someone knows the resaon for the original redirection can they explain? Thanks
Andrew Riddles 01:24, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attentat? 

message: Perhaps someone could have a look at the following new addition, which I just removed from the article. Spelling and redlinking aside, I'm not sure what the point of the text is. -- Ec5618 14:15, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concrete bomb 

message: I just changed a section of vandalism, we should be watching this article more often.
Alec92 22:24, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watch for Vandalism 

message: Yeap, what the person was trying to explain is almost correct. The Air Force is using BDU-50 (Mk 82 Intert Bomb, 500#) and BDU-56 (Mk 84 Intert Bomb, 2000#) to take out targets with no coladderal damage. The Bombs are forged steel bombs filled with Concrete instead of explosives. There is no  Mk 83 (1000#) version of the inert bomb (concrete bomb). 76.184.182.223 (talk) 22:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree.  While the concrete "bomb" may not fit the standard definition of a bomb, they are called bombs in common usage so deserve a mention.  They are certainly notable, and one looking for information about them would logically look in this article.Theseeker4 (talk) 18:18, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concrete Bomb Response 

message: What's the origin of those cartoon bombs. Those black balls with a fuse coming out of them? I heard they were based on old Spanish grenades. 70.89.165.91 (talk) 22:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice to see a mention of these explosive cannonballs in this article, perhaps in a "History" section.  Their prevalence in Western animation makes their cultural impact more enduring than their actual military use, it seems.  --Rogermw (talk) 23:16, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of cartoon bombs 

message: Hi I'm having troubles replacing the current diagram of the timebomb with my new SVG version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TimeBomb.svg
If somebody could help that would be grand, thanks.
Will  —Preceding unsigned comment added by WillT.Net (talk • contribs) 21:01, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I SVG-ised the diagram - Can somebody replace the JPG 

message: I just corrected some vandalism that seems to have been there for some time.  
In the first paragraph I have replaced where it had said "intestinal material" with "explosive material"... text which I verified was in an earlier version of the page.
I'm posting annonymously because I'm at work and really shouldn't be here anyway.
Nogdenut  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.110.232.224 (talk) 17:45, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism removed 

message: If anyone is interested, the article List of bombs should either be merged here or re-worked so that it has some value. Pichpich (talk) 21:25, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of bombs 

message: I put a note up in the article for more sources. There are many questionable claims made in the article and these need sources to back them up. For example, the concept that a bomb must have an exothermic chemical reaction - I've never come across this criterion before for classifying bombs. As far as I was aware, a bomb is basically anything made to cause destruction when it explodes. Grenades etc are types of bomb, as is a nuclear bomb. The article also needs to explain (with sources) how "improvised explosive devices" are different to bombs. It would also be good to talk about saboteurs, modern suicide bombers, the invention of dynamite, ... Owen214 (talk) 14:19, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  more sources needed 

message: Should bomb dispenser link here?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.247.169.197 (talk) 05:52, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dipensers

message: I found this article on "Bomb" to be well-written and thought out with the proper attention also paid to significant topics that need to be understood simultaneously with the understanding of the bomb. However, I feel that there are too many broad general definitions for a variety of terms and that there are no real intimate information which can help tremendously in further knowledge of this topic. The idea to delve into one specific area of this article could help this become more informative and more interesting and useful to its readers. The sources are complete and credible, but again, there are not that many of them, which shows that there is still a lot of information that can be gained on the bomb. The illustrations go well with this article because it shows a few different types of bombs, an internal diagram of how a bomb functions and the actual deployment of the device. There could definitely be more pictures and diagrams because bombs are very complicated and there are so many different types of bombs that have been made and used in the world. I wish there was a history section on the bomb and the time periods for what bombs were used when and the developing of the technology of the bomb. These are very important components for having anyone trying to understand a term and this could make this article more credible and authoritative. I do notice that it is a serious website, and there are no thoughtless reports that have been made and that everything included has been looked up and confirmed credible. I think that this wikipedia article is comparable to that of an encyclopedia edition because it does a good job on covering the basics of the broad term of a bomb. It also links out and mentions important terms and ideas with it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by HIST406-10scypen (talk • contribs) 01:43, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critique 

message: As far as I can tell, this article covers two significantly different topics:
* Aerial bombs
* Improvised Explosive Devices
Both of which already have an article (3 in the case of aerial bombs!), and it seems to me that the information in this page woud be better moved to the appropirate article and this page turned into a disambiguation page, or split into two parts and the above articles moved into here. Jellyfish dave (talk) 13:09, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Too Many Articles

message: "A bomb is any of a range (short or long distance) of explosive weapons..." - just what kind of sense does "(short or long distance)" make in this context? The "range" in question refers neither to the distance over which a bomb is deployed nor to the radius of its effect. The term "range" is used here in the sense of "variety, plurality". Is there any reason to uphold this infelicitous phrasing?--Humphrey20020 (talk) 06:57, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No reason at all.  I've removed it.  Rojomoke (talk) 21:52, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: First sentence

message: I have noticed extremely high level of IP vandalism on this page. Since there are many people who just type "Bomb" into the search box and press Enter, shouldn't this page be protected?  ★ Oliverlyc ★ ✈✈✈  Pop me a message! 01:09, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  High Level of IP Vandalism - Semi-Protection needed? 

message: This article really needs a history section, imo 75.84.186.29 (talk) 03:45, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: === First thoughts ===
Hi all.  I'm planning additions to the article, to include these 2 types of bomb that one reads about. I'm aware that concrete bombs have been discussed in at least 2 sections already on this talk page. I feel that both inert and concrete (though they may be one and the same - I know nothing about the subject) should be somewhere on Wikipedia  Indeed, I came to WP to find out what inert bombs are, having read about them today on BBC news re Australia.  
There's probably insufficient scope for either of them having their own articles - certainly at this stage.  So instead, I feel they should go into this article, somehow.  Once I've added them, of course other editors may wish to change the format.  I would, however, recommend keeping any new subsection names &/or bold text, as these will probably be the targets of redirects which I will soon create. 
Further rational for having them on WP is that:
* inert bombs are referred to in these 8 WP articles, &
* concrete bombs are referred to in these 9 WP articles.
Surely it's best for WP to describe things it refers to - hence my changes. Military experts will doubtless expand the information in the course of time.
Happy to discuss further, here, naturally.  Thanks, Trafford09 (talk) 12:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inert bombs and concrete bombs 

message: Hi all.  I'm planning additions to the article, to include these 2 types of bomb that one reads about. I'm aware that concrete bombs have been discussed in at least 2 sections already on this talk page. I feel that both inert and concrete (though they may be one and the same - I know nothing about the subject) should be somewhere on Wikipedia  Indeed, I came to WP to find out what inert bombs are, having read about them today on BBC news re Australia.  
There's probably insufficient scope for either of them having their own articles - certainly at this stage.  So instead, I feel they should go into this article, somehow.  Once I've added them, of course other editors may wish to change the format.  I would, however, recommend keeping any new subsection names &/or bold text, as these will probably be the targets of redirects which I will soon create. 
Further rational for having them on WP is that:
* inert bombs are referred to in these 8 WP articles, &
* concrete bombs are referred to in these 9 WP articles.
Surely it's best for WP to describe things it refers to - hence my changes. Military experts will doubtless expand the information in the course of time.
Happy to discuss further, here, naturally.  Thanks, Trafford09 (talk) 12:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First thoughts 

message: I am now better-informed.  
It transpires that there _was_ already a concrete bomb article, and inert bombs are effectively described in inert#Munitions.  So, I've created inert bomb as a redirect to there. 
This means that:
* My changes to this Bomb#Types section are actually redundant.  Please remove them if you feel strongly - although I still feel they serve some use. 
* What I said earlier (about not removing bold text etc. as things point here) no longer applies.  All such matters are handled independently of this article.
Trafford09 (talk) 19:58, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second thoughts 

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message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Bomb holes. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 21#Bomb holes until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 23:34, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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message: Presently, the article includes this:
"Therefore, the pressure wave produced by a high explosive is not significantly increased by confinement as detonation occurs so quickly that the resulting plasma does not expand much before all the explosive material has reacted."
As a layman---i.e., someone who has never used high explosives---I'm not sure this is quite correct.  I suppose, yes, that confinement is unnecessary if "confinement" be taken to mean some sort of artifact, e.g., a metal container or even a container made of heavy paper; but my sense is that a high explosive won't explode if it is not "confined" by, at least, the atmosphere, i.e., by atmospheric pressure.  In fact, I wonder whether "detonation" of, say, nitroglycerin can occur if there is no surrounding air through which a shock wave can spread.
Don't know the answers.  Am simply hoping someone who knows will address the questions.98.114.190.60 (talk) 98.114.190.60 (talk) 22:20, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confinement