Re: Jericho... WOW!

Doug Freyburger wrote:
> "Dano" <janeandd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> I thought Hawkins disarmed it.
>
> My thought was he removed the arming mechanism.  Not
> quite the same thing as it would be easy for an expert
> technician to reassemble the parts.
>
>> I may have simply assumed that. Do we
>> actually know there is a tracking device in the bomb?
>
> We do not.
>
>> Why not in the J&R vehicle?
>
> How to find that one among the many that drive around
> fairly randomly?
>

All it requires is a simple GPS device.  I wouldn't be surprised if all 
their vehicles were so equipped.

>> I would assume (there I go again) that had there been a tracking
>> device all this time, they would have already recovered the device...
>
> He did keep the bomb buried and well shielded in a small
> custom made concrete bunker.  That should have made it
> invisible to radiation detectors but that wouldn't work in the
> story line.  But at least concrete block radio pretty well,
> especially steel reinforced concrete with embedded chicken
> wire mesh.

Yeah...that's true I suppose.  But they could have followed the signal to 
that point before he built his bunker.