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Explosives are relatively easy to make at home for technically minded attackers. Sarin and VX require much more difficult-to-obtain chemicals, or several more d
by philipkglass 4y ago
Explosives are relatively easy to make at home for technically minded attackers. Sarin and VX require much more difficult-to-obtain chemicals, or several more difficult synthetic stages, and are much easier to accidentally kill yourself with. The only criminal group I'm aware of that actually made their own nerve gas was the Aum Shinrikyo group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack
- Teever 4y agoWhat about ricin? I thought that it was relatively easy to source from castor beans.
- umeshunni 4y agoI too watched Breaking Bad...
- heavyset_go 4y agoYou need to eat a lot of it. The only reason anyone even sees media about ricin is because it really isn't as potent as it's portrayed, and it stops copycats from using what they see on TV to kill a lot of people.
- hilbert42 4y agoWhen I was a kid my mother would give me a tablespoon of foul-tasting castor oil as a laxative. Since learning about the ricin connection it's always been a source of bemusement whenever I think about it. Edit: presumably by 'a lot' you mean milligrams (by ingestion) and not micrograms. From my understanding eating 100mg would be a certain death sentence.
- felurx 4y agoMaybe some NaOH? Not deadly, but would certainly be very unpleasant to have explode in your face.