Originally Posted by
TSORon
You should. The technical requirements for what you propose are far more difficult to overcome than you might think. The terrorist that does not think of these things is likely to find himself in the middle of a premature detonation of his own device, thereby not hitting his intended target.
Some of these things involve transporting an unstable liquid, EMI interference between the initiator and the transmitter, transmission harmonics, metal shielding the transmitter, etc. Building bombs is an extremely dangerous job, get it wrong only once and chances are you will not survive the error. Many would-be terrorists have found this out.
This does not make accomplishing the job impossible, just quite a bit more complicated than you seem to understand.
While you may know something about bombs and how to build one I know a great deal about how aircraft are constructed. Between the floor under your feet to the baggage areas is a very short distance. It would take a very small RF output to act as a triggering device.
If a person is willing to blow themselves up I really don't think they would be overly concerned about a premature explosion if it happened. But that does bring up an excellent point.
These types of bombs are to unstable to check yet are not if in carry-on baggage?
No one said building bombs is a safe job. But I do think the people who would do so have enough training to do so and have detonation at a time of their choosing.