“The number one way to deal with something that “might†be a bomb is to put it in a cool box, blow it up and measure the force, if it’s no strong that what they used to blow it up it wasn’t a bomb.”
I thought the idea was to separate the components of the bomb (timer, battery, detonator) rather than set off a sympathetic detonation.
Bear in mind I’m not an EOD guy, I can’t run that fast.
The idea is to have it blow up on your schedule rather than the bomb maker’s. Maybe there will be a sympathetic explosion, maybe not, but the important part is it went off where and when you wanted and therefore harmlessly.