> What does the PAL do when it detects unauthorized tampering? By some accounts, several incorrect passwords will set off the explosives. Asymmetrically, of co

> What does the PAL do when it detects unauthorized tampering? By some accounts, several incorrect passwords will set off the explosives. Asymmetrically, of course. No nuclear explosion, just a conventional one that kills the fool diddling the bomb and disperses plutonium, making his hideout uninhabitable.