Technorati Tags: News from New York, Art, Explosives, GawkerHackett said the strength of the bomb would be equivalent to "about four pounds of TNT. It doesn’t sound like much," he allowed, "but it’s enough to kill everyone in the gallery."
Mr. Hackett’s bomb is designed to be triggered from "anywhere else in the world—you call a cell phone." He said that he had already purchased the cell-phone trigger. Only he knows the number—but, of course, he has no plans to explode it.
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Monday, August 22, 2005
News from New York: Artist Creates Suitcase Bomb
From Gawker: