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3. what a list of chemicals !

Reply to IDemo (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2014, 06:16 PM

Jan 2014

This guy was going to blow up something BIG. potassium perchlorate is akin to solid rocket fuel, atomized magnesium would create a highly compressed gas fireball effect along with the potassium nitrate..... I'M DAMN GLAD THEY CAUGHT HIM !!!. It was ammonium perchlorate that blew up in this video

at the old PEPCON plant. Not that its exactly the same, but these chemicals are both highly active oxidizers....which means it basically consumes itself until all the oxygen is burnt out on its own, no stopping it.

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Russian man faces weapon of mass destruction charges in Pennsylvania [View all] IDemo Jan 2014 OP

Wow - "weapon of mass destruction" has become as meaningless a term Maedhros Jan 2014 #1

Seemingly a threat to more than one person. dipsydoodle Jan 2014 #2

Legally, conventional bombs over a certain size have been WMD for a long time Distant Quasar Jan 2014 #4

What do you think about drones? uppityperson Jan 2014 #5

Surveillance Drones? Missile-launch drones? JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2014 #6

Drones are a delivery device Distant Quasar Jan 2014 #7

really? madrchsod Jan 2014 #9

In other news, in Africa a chimp threatened a game warden with a weapon of mass destruction yurbud Jan 2014 #15

That it wasn't a nuclear, etc. weapon begs the question: What in the world was he doing with JDPriestly Jan 2014 #17

Boston Marathon Bombing comes to mind Herself Jan 2014 #21

what a list of chemicals ! Burf-_- Jan 2014 #3

Oh - I agree: this guy needed to be caught, and needs to be severely punished. Maedhros Jan 2014 #10

even real chemical and bio weapons are at best weapons of medium destruction yurbud Jan 2014 #16

What about the bomb used by McVeigh in Oklahoma City? davidpdx Jan 2014 #22

"Weapons of Mass Destruction" historically referred to atomic and hydrogen bombs, Maedhros Jan 2014 #27

Historically is the key word davidpdx Jan 2014 #29

It really is something of a stretch. Maedhros Jan 2014 #30

It was ammonia perchlorate not potassium perchlorate. AAO Jan 2014 #11

good thing they got this guy off the street... madrchsod Jan 2014 #8

Russians have always been the enemy, we have always been at war with Russians Alamuti Lotus Jan 2014 #12

I used to know guys who liked to blow shit up. Comrade Grumpy Jan 2014 #13

According to the local paper, just a kid wanted to see an explosion happyslug Jan 2014 #14

Typical criminal: When the police asked him what he was going to do with the explosive, he said JDPriestly Jan 2014 #18

So homemade fireworks are WMDs now. JoeyT Jan 2014 #19

All available over the internet LTG Jan 2014 #20

in SC you can legally buy fire crackers in "packs" the size of suit cases Herself Jan 2014 #23

Also available online LTG Jan 2014 #24

So why isn't he being deported immediately and never allowed back in this country? nt kelliekat44 Jan 2014 #25

Because he's not actually a terrorist. JoeyT Jan 2014 #26

Because most countries like to charge people with the crimes committed on their soil muriel_volestrangler Jan 2014 #28