Re: Bomb-making instructions....

[Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> writes:
> At 11:16 PM 6/27/97 -0500, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> >Making explosives is very dangerous even if the recipes are right. I
> >personally knew many kids who lost fingers, eyes and other body organs
> >due to careless handling of homemade explosives. Probably, the important
> >thing to do before bombmaking is to learn the safety rules.
> 
> I would urge anyone interested in explosives, but unfamiliar with them, to
> first read the following books before attempting any recipes out of the
> "Anarchist's Cookbook" and similar publications. Your
> extremities/eyes/health will thank you.

Just for the record, _The Anarchist's Cookbook_ is full of
purposefully dangerous misinformation. It is written so that if you
follow enough of its recipies, you *will* kill yourself. I suggest old
archives or the newsgroup rec.pyrotechnics, which, until is self-
censored itself, provided excellent safety advice as well as how to
make things go boom. I'd imagine that there is still a wealth of
information about safety.

BTW, when making nitrocellulose, ice baths are your friends, cold
water will just not do. 

HTH,
Jer

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