antipersonnel bomb

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antipersonnel bomb - a bomb with only 10 to 20 per cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments; most effective against troops and vehicles

anti-personnel bomb, daisy cutter, fragmentation bomb

Big Blue, BLU-82 - a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan

bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions

cluster bomb - bomb consisting of a canister that is dropped from a plane and that opens to release a cluster of bomblets (usually fragmentation bombs) over a wide area; "cluster bombs cannot be targeted precisely"

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He said: "This was an antipersonnel bomb which was designed to kill people in the area."

Hundreds walked by bomb

By contrast, Wilkerson, best known as a member of the radical Weatherman collective--which managed to blow up most of itself during an effort to assemble an antipersonnel bomb intended for an army officer's dance--has produced a strangely bloodless and enervating narrative that creaks under the weight of that disastrous misadventure.

Blasts from the past

Although the man never specifically outlines what ''use'' a box would be, speculation is he was talking about an antipersonnel bomb.