Study: Fuel-air bombs too hard to make

Using bombs made from fuel and compressed gas, as terrorists tried to do in London earlier this year, is so difficult even national militaries have failed....

Now that sales of ammonium nitrate fertilizer are increasingly monitored, the briefing says, and given the difficulties in making -- and relatively small explosive yields of -- peroxide-based bombs, the effort to use fuel-air techniques "was an inventive way to attempt a much larger ... Full Story »

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Donald L. Meaker
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by Donald L. Meaker - Oct. 1, 2008

We use Bunker C, gasoline, kerosine, and diesel in our engines because it is hard to ignite outside engines. Religious fervor doesn't change the physics of phase and the chemistry of combustion.

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