A nail bomb is an anti-personnel explosive device containing nails to increase its effectiveness at harming victims. The nails act as shrapnel, leading almost certainly to more injury in inhabited areas than the explosives alone would. A nail bomb is also a type of flechette weapon. Such weapons use bits of shrapnel to create a larger radius of destruction.
An assortment of nails
Israel Defense Forces soldiers examining an explosives factory in Nablus containing various types of improvised shrapnel, 2002.
Fort Dix, the common name for the Army Support Activity (ASA) located at Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst, is a United States Army post. It is located 16.1 miles (25.9 km) south-southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. Fort Dix is under the jurisdiction of the Air Force Air Mobility Command. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Fort Dix census-designated place (CDP) had a total population of 7,716, of which 5,951 were in New Hanover Township, 1,765 were in Pemberton Township, and none were in Springfield Township.
U.S. Army combat training at Fort Dix in January 2008
The Human Liberty Bell at Camp Dix, including 25,000 people in 1918
First day at Camp Dix for World War I recruits
An M26 Pershing tank from the World War II era on display at Fort Dix
