[Gllug] Even more increased airport security announced.

[Mike Brodbelt]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:09:02PM +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>> Richard Jones wrote:

> Well we never made more than around 5 grams[*] or so in one batch.
> But it was tricky to detonate unless it was totally "confined and
> compressed" - it would just flare up.  Maybe if we'd used strong
> peroxide ...

You probably had a relatively low purity product then[*]. Pure HMTD is
far from tricky to detonate - in fact its over-sensitive nature is
why it gets no military usage worth talking about.

Mike

[*] You should be thankful for this - I nearly did substantial damage to
myself with the stuff....
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