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A material destruction system comprising:

• a container;
• a content destruction element configured to destroy material in the container;
• an arming device configured to arm the content destruction element based on at least one arming criteria, and to initiate the content destruction element based on at least one firing criteria,
• wherein the at least one arming criteria includes at least one of movement of the container, acceleration, penetration of the container, and an arming signal, and
• wherein the at least one firing criteria includes at least one of movement of the container, acceleration, penetration of the container, elapsed time, and a firing signal.

A method of destroying material in a container, said method comprising:

• arming a content destruction element based on an arming criteria including at least one of movement of the container, acceleration, penetration of the container, and an arming signal;
• activating an alarm based at least in part on said arming the content destruction element;
• monitoring, by at least one microprocessor, a firing criteria including at least two of movement of the container, acceleration, penetration of the container, elapsed time, and a firing signal;
• and
• at least one of:
• initiating the content destruction element based on the occurrence of the firing criteria, or
• making the content destruction element safe based on a disarm signal,
• wherein occurrence of at least one of the arming criteria and firing criteria are determined based on data provided by a sensor of the container.