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Makes one wonder how much of it has found its way into illicit hands. Yes, it's more dangerous to the owner than to any target at this point, but if you know wh
by samus 4y ago
Makes one wonder how much of it has found its way into illicit hands. Yes, it's more dangerous to the owner than to any target at this point, but if you know what you're doing it could be a source of explosives that is otherwise completely untraceable.
- Eisenstein 4y agoI think it would be more cost and time-effective to just make explosives than go around searching for them, hoping they don't blow up when you dig them out, then concealing them and bringing them back to wherever your base of operations is. Explosives are (somewhat) easy to make, it is setting them off reliably without blowing yourself up that is difficult.
- chasil 4y agoThere was a scare with TriAcetone-TriPeroxide in shoes a few years ago; I think this is why we are still taking off our shoes. Modern solutions make the safety aspect quite simple, exhibiting stability until hypersonic shockwave conditions.
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- greedo 4y agoA munition with a fuse is nothing terrorists etc would want. There's no way to know when it would explode, nor any way to control it.
- Merad 4y agoI’d imagine most people with the knowledge to safely handle these types of explosives already have access to modern weapons grade stuff (black market munitions, etc.). For your run of the mill domestic terrorist type it really isn’t that hard to make explosives (fertilizer and diesel fuel), so probably not worth the risk of messing with unstable 100 year old bombs.
- gattilorenz 4y agoIt has actually happened: in 1992 the italian judge Paolo Borsellino was killed in a car bombing organized by the mafia. The explosive was sourced from unexploded bombs recovered in the Mediterranean sea.