•Why can’t we use the force of an explosion against itself?
On a hot, steamy August morning, Greenhill AntiBallistics’ co-founder stood sweating on a crowded, dirty, barely ventilated subway platform looking at “The Big Black Bomb Container,” which to everyone else was a garbage bin.
A former CIA case officer, he thought: “we’re all going to die...”
He began to think operationally:
•How do you stop a crazy with a bomb? Likely there is a Deadman's switch and, if the crazy goes up, so do we. •How can we make that bomb ineffective? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.