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Summary: Sold for informational purposes only!
Review: "[Covers] the kind of stuff that, frankly, it may be easier
to make yourself, because it's such a nuisance to buy."
-New York Daily News-
A guide to making demolition strength explosives using readily
available materials and supplies. The detailed, illustrated
instructions rely on fairly simple procedures. Covers: Nitroglycerin; Nitroglycol; Nitromannitol; PETN; RDX(Cyclonite);
and more including detonatio systems. Sold for informational
purposes only.
1990, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 126pp, illustrated, soft cover
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Summary: Excellent even for those of you who are beginers at this.
Review: A very good read if you are interested in how to blow stuff up. It gives you good insight into the workings and makeing of all kinds of explosives. It gives details of what to do and some diagrams so you know what it is suposed to look like. I believe that you should have at least SOME knowledge into basic chemestry so that you know how to mix things in their proper proportions so that you dont end up becomeing the target for a homemade firecracker (believe me its painful, nearly blew off my finger when I was 13 and trying to make a firecracker out of a bullet).Dont be fooled by the cover of this book, their is nothing funny about whats inside because this is a book for those who are really interested in how to make explosives. For those who want entertainment, I suggest the Anarchist Cookbook, its not nearly as detailed as this. I believe that this is a very throrough guide for those interested in how to blow things up. Deffinitly not for 13 year old punks (like I was) who think there going to bomb their school and get away with it (not like I was). If you have kids, I suggest you be careful of where you leave this puppy layin' around.
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Summary: A book based on personal experience
Review: Back when I was in college, my favorite
hobby was to cook explosives and make
them go BOOM! Hence my nick name Uncle Fester. This book is very strong on the
details of making these explosives, and a little short on detonation systems, as
my favorite way to detonate my home cooked
explosives was to whack them with a ham-
mer, or set them off with an M-80. Per-
haps in a later edition I will cover in
more detail the construction of detonation
systems for these explosives. My interest
back in college was just to watch it go
off, not to do damage. If your interests
are similar there is no better book to
guide you to the pleasures to be had with
high performance explosives.
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Summary: A suicide manual
Review: Chock full of untested (by the author) formula pulled off the web and copied from other ill-conceived books. More than one of these formula will result in an unexpected loss of eyes, limbs and life. Caveat idiot.
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Summary: Home Workshop Explosives, Second Edition
Review: Everything the everyday Joe could ask for on hard-to-find information about explosives! A step-by-step guide by the master himself! Uncle Fester! An underground legend in his own time!
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Summary: Home workshop Explosives
Review: It is well worth the time to study this text as long as you have a basic chemistry background. It sheds light on some very interesting ways to make your own explosives if needed.
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Summary: The voice of experience?
Review: Many books on this subject are borderline ripoffs, recycled from old military tech manuals, high school chemistry texts, and encyclopedia-type generic info of little practical value by authors who don't really seem to know what they're talking about. Usually directions given are either so imprecise as to be suicidal (considering the subject), or else so technical that only a chemistry professor could understand them. This book seems a lot better. Either the author knows what he's doing, or he's got me fooled. Without trying any of the recipies, I can't vouch for them, but they've got that "ring" of genuineness to them.
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Summary: Basic coverage of safety in formulation of Nitric Esters
Review: The author has some appropriate words on safety; some useful concepts for those with a need to develop field expediant explosive material. Five compounds covered. Formula appears to be workable. Author obviously has graduate-level chem background and experience making chemicals in "non-lab" environment. Useful for law enforment, military. Points to a fact: homeland security CANNOT contain explosive material in common market place. Thus detection (nitro snifing, etc, etc) may be appropraite area to further explore.
There is no comparison to "teeny-bomber" books which provide incorrect formula, safety agenda (cook-book, james-bond-junk type "publications"). Information herein is factual, workable, and grossly simple. Author (like others of his ilk) has written other works on clandestine drug manufacture and poison manufacture. That alone speaks volumes! Book will NOT provide information unknown to any person with experiance in same. Worth the money
:-)
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Summary: Best book on Improvised Explosives ever!
Review: The title says very little about this most amazing book. I love high-explosives. I like to play with them. And I have a little bit of experience with it... I'm a former special-operations officer with 16 years of service in my country's intelligence agency (something like a "mix" of CIA/FBI/Secret Service, now extinct), and I have done years of overseas "contractor" work... I've been in five major guerrilla wars (Angola, Mozambique, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Lebanon), and alt. I had previous experience with improvised explosives, that old "Black Books" on improvising ordnance did not help me, when I needed it most. Old warriors never die (they only go to Hell to regroup), and I even ask some "insiders" on contrating me to work in Iraq, earlier this year, as a "security advisor", but they find me too fat & unfit to be of use in there... a close friend, former Royal Marine and veteran of Northern Ireland and Malvinas/Falklands, who lived in another big town here, go there, and now is doing what he was trained for... and alt. in all wars we once fought we can get any ammount of firearms, ammo, support weapons, you name it, there was a lack of high-explosives to we "Soldiers-of-Fortune" play with... If I had this amazing book with me on "my wars" back in the '80's, I could do things in a better, faster, more funny way, if you can get what I'm talking about. I love high-explosives, as I told earlier, even being outside of any war, and experiments with this books' fuel-air devices make me fell young again, even with the small earthquake people feel around... with the most potent "toy" described (and a very easy to use one), I get a fireball the size of a truck! I LOVED IT!!! Well, if you want real fun, this is the book for you. Stop reading feeble books that can only "instruct" you, or dangerous books that can only teach you how to blow yourself in hundreds of pieces. Uncle Fester knows what he writes about - and knows a LOT.
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Summary: BRILLIANT BOOK ON MANUFACTURE OF SECONDARY HIGH EXPLOSIVES
Review: This book covers everything needing to produce and refine into, safe secondary high explosives. Every procedure is really described in detail but I was surprised to see a few obvious gaps. The getting of the acids is the first thing. The only two acids are Nitric and Sulphuric acid. Sulphuric acid is easy to get as it is added to distilled water and then added to the car battery to raise the level but nowhere is this mentioned in the book. Nitric acid is the hardest to come by. The type of Nitric acid used is of a high strength, the manufacture of which is described in excellent detail and is the only reliable method doing the rounds. According to the book "anyone who does not look like a refugee from the local insane asylum" can get some. This might raise your hopes but it isnt that simple if they ask you what strength you want, 90%(called fuming nitric acid) is ideal but 70%(common sulphuric acid) is sufficient. They might casually ask you why you might need it as only large factories (explosives and fertiliser factories) and jewellers need it. An excuse is that somebody else who works in an electrical distribution company has sent me for it and that I think it is for servicing the gold contacts in the circuit breaker in a power station. It sounds technical but it works! The whole book lacks legimite reasons for the purchase of these chemicals. Methods of detonation are slack also if commercial detonators arent available. The use of a nitro-soaked firework or nitrogen triiodine doesnt seem very appelling. DONT GET ME WRONG. IF YOU HAVE A DETONATOR(HOMEMADE OR OTHER WISE) THIS IS THE BOOK TO BUY! APSOLUTELY TOP CLASS!
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