Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

In the second world war, guerrilla forces scattered large quantities of booby-trapped objects likely to be attractive to civilians. The idea was to cause widescale and indiscriminate death. The Japanese manufactured a tobacco pipe with a charge detonated by a spring-loaded striker. The Italians produced a headset that blew up when it was plugged in. More than half a century later, a global treaty came into force which “prohibited in all circumstances to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material”. Has anyone told Israel and its jubilant supporters that, as Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group points out, it is a signatory to the protocol?