Nitroglycerin In The Park Of My Youth

Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 05:30 in Mathematics & Economics

The internet is filled with recipes for explosives. It's sometimes forgotten that eight years before 9/11, terrorists bombed the World Trade Center with a mixture of explosives including hydrogen gas, urea nitrate, and nitroglycerin. Two compounds were prepared in a Jersey City apartment from recipes found on the internet. A Google search for acetone peroxide (triacetone triperoxide or TATP), the so-called "Mother of Satan" explosive often used by other terrorists, yields 152 000 results, including a supposedly "safe version" of the recipe on a Metacafe video. read more

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