A l'Iraq, una unitat d'elit d'artificiers nord-americans actua en una ciutat caòtica on qualsevol persona pot ser un enemic i qualsevol objecte, una bomba. El cap del grup, el sergent Thompson, mor en el transcurs d'una missió i és substituït per l'impredictible i temerari sergent William James. Quan falta poc perquè la brigada sigui rellevada, l'imprudent comportament de James farà que dos dels seus subordinats es plantegin seriosament el risc que corren.

Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.

A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.

A former bomb squad leader comes out of retirement to investigate a series of bombings plaguing Seattle.