A suitcase bomb is equipped with a trigger system based on the Nokia 105 mobile phone—the preferred device used by non-state actors in Iraq and Syria during the 2010s. When the phone number is dialed, the bomb detonates: a 1:1 scale inflatable replica of the Fat Man bomb—the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, whose design has become—uncannily—iconic.

Improvised Inflatable Device / Dani Ploeger - Photo: Dani Ploeger
Exhibit
Improvised Inflatable Device
Dani Ploeger (NL)
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