In The Hurt Locker, the high-tension Oscar-winning 2008 film about an American bomb-disposal team in the Iraq War, team leader Sergeant Matt Thompson is seen sprinting away from an improvised explosive device (IED) when it is deliberately detonated. He is running for his life - to outdistance the IED's lethal radius of 25 m. Despite wearing a heavily armoured "bomb suit", the intense blast wave from the device sends Thompson flailing through the air. With blood splashing inside his faceplate, we realize that he is the victim of a powerful physical cause: a pulse of pressure strong enough to deal out instant death.
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