Yes. In fact you'll find the better ones on the shelves of technical libraries [1], both in the US and in other English-speaking countries. Introductory: The

Yes. In fact you'll find the better ones on the shelves of technical libraries [1], both in the US and in other English-speaking countries. Introductory: The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives by Tenney L. Davis. Advanced: Chemistry and Technology of Explosives by Tadeusz Urbanski (English translation by M. Jurecki). Encyclopedic: Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items by Basil T. Federoff. Advanced applications of explosives, toward the destruction of materiel and human beings: Tactical Missile Warheads by Joseph Carleone. When I was an undergraduate I even found a book about nerve gas on the shelves -- Some aspects of the chemistry and toxic action of organic compounds containing phosphorus and fluorine by Bernard Charles Saunders. Dig into the citations and you find a further wealth of detail, papers now universally accessible through sci-hub. The main obstacle to making effective bombs isn't restrictions on information. It's that most people inclined to violence [2] can't or won't teach themselves something new even if given a wealth of high quality literature to do it with. [1] And on Amazon and Library Genesis. [2] Most non-violent people too have trouble with learning on their own. People who keep learning new things may overestimate how common that ability is in general.