From: Brad Dolan <bdolan@use.usit.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 09:54:40 +0800
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Bombs & bomb threats in LA
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Didn't (left-radical) Abbie Hoffman's anarchy bible _Steal This Book_ have 
some bombmaking instructions also?  I don't recall civilization falling in 
1968 or thereabouts when STB was published.

bd

On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> At 9:33 AM 8/2/96, Conrad Walton wrote:
> 
> >i'm not exactly sure what an acid bomb is, but according to my book, The
> >Anarchist Cookbook, that I bought in 1972 (was the internet around back
> >then?), there is a compound called "picric acid" that is "more powerful
> >than TNT, but has some disadvantages".
> 
> The ARPANET (or ARPANet, or Arpanet...) was around then. (I had an account
> on it, circa 1973...not very useful for me.)
> 
> I also got my copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook" back around then. It was in
> the news locally when the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's office attempted
> to have it removed from the local bookstores....this removed it all right,
> as the stacks of copies sold out as quickly as they could be received and
> unpacked.
> 
> (As others have noted over the years, much of the advice is probably bogus
> and even dangerous. Not being an explosives dabbler, I wouldn't know.)
> 
> If Feinswine gets her ban on bomb-making information passed, and this is
> upheld by the courts (doubtful), the sites will be swamped with information
> queries, and fooling around with bombs will become more popular amongst the
> teenage set that has not expressed much interest in such things the past
> couple of decades.
> 
> The more things change, the more they remain the same.
> 
> --Tim May, an I-bomb-throwing crypto anarchist
> 
> Buy a section of metal water pipe 1/2 by 6 inches long, threaded on both
> ends.  Buy two metal caps to fit.  These are standard items in hardware
> stores.  Drill a 1/16th hole in the center of the pipe. This is easy with a
> good drill bit. Hanson is a good brand to use.  Screw a metal cap tightly
> on one end. Fill the pipe to within 1/2 inch of the top with black powder.
> Do not pack
> the powder. Don't even tap the bottom of the pipe to make it settle.  You want
> the powder loose.  For maximum explosive effect, you need dry, fine powder
> sitting loose in a very rigid container.
> 
> 
>