From: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:05:52 +0800
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Subject: Re: Bomb-making instructions....
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At 06:54 PM 6/28/97 EDT, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
>
>Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> 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.
>
>I have the cookbook and can post it on a Web site. A while back I asked
>Jim Bell if he'd be willing to write short comments, like "this is
>bullshit" and "this is dangerous" and "here's a better way to make
>it stink".  If anyone knows chemistry and isn't in jail yet, please
>consider doing this wortwhile project.

I can give one minor example from memory...

The recipe for Nitrogen Tri-Iodide has four steps to it.  The first two
make the proper chemical.  The second two are drying agents that will make
the stuff blow up in your face.

The book has a number of other risky recipes.  It also contains the
infamous (false) "Banana Peel" rumor about how smoking banana peels can get
you high. A recipe for LSD that is pretty poor.  A bunch of other bogus
drug stuff... 

There are much better sources for info on explosives.  The government
publications do a pretty good job.  (I have seen a few on "how to make
explosives from common items" and the like.  Training for military
personnel trapped behind enemy lines and traing local governments for
uprisings and the like...  The CIA even did a comic book for distribution
in South America.



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