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Cabinets filled with illegal explosives at cutting-edge precision multi-billion factory with priceless equipment awaiting for an accident? Only if it very safe

Cabinets filled with illegal explosives at cutting-edge precision multi-billion factory with priceless equipment awaiting for an accident? Only if it very safe explosives planted in strategic places by Taiwan military with consent from all parties involved with solders posted 24/7 to protect from sabotage. Like bridges in military time.

liability 6y ago
Who said anything about illegal? The Taiwanese government knows the importance of TSMC. If the rumors are true, the explosives would be there because the government wanted it.
delfinom 6y ago
It isn't exactly unprecedented. Switzerland kept all its bridges and tunnels actively primed with explosives at all times since at least WW2 to the early 2000s.
gruez 6y ago
>with priceless equipment awaiting for an accident? I'm not an expert on explosives, but aren't modern explosives relatively safe? As in, they require very specific conditions to explode, so they're not going to be set off by a random fires or impacts. The blasting caps (needed to initiate the explosion) can be placed in a safe in the plant manager's office.
- huffmsa 6y ago
  They are
- liability 6y ago
  I've heard that American soldiers in Vietnam sometimes cooked their food by lighting pieces of C4 on fire. I'm not sure if that's historically accurate but it should be possible at least; as you say you need something like a blasting cap to detonate it.