BBC liquid bomb slip up

[imhotep]

Did anyone see the Six o' Clock News? In this evenings news they tell us everything about the dangers of liquid bombs going on aeroplanes. The silly thing is,is that the BBC tell everyone what the main ingredients are of the liquid bombs,which is peroxide base mixed with something else I couldn't quite remember.I thought, why on earth would the BBC tell everyone about the mixture.Would have been much safer had they not told anyone about the main ingredients!! What are your comments on this?

[Buenchico]

In my sixth form days, everyone was experimenting with making nitroglycerine from instructions found in books in the school library. It wasn't hard to find instructions for making explosives then and (with the internet) it's far easier now.

I've just Googled 'instructions peroxide bomb' and there are loads of promising links. The BBC won't have told potential bombers anything they don't already know or can't find out easily anyway.

Chris

[Gromit]

The ingdredients aren't exactly secret. Any school chemistry student would know them. A search on the Internet would tell you everything you would need to know, in a few seconds.

[imhotep]

That's too true, Chris!!!
It's amazing what you can find within Google.Tap in anything you want to find an answer on,and sure enough you will find what you are looking for.
You certainly have good comments,so I will give you three stars.

[kempie]

During the '60s the Wisconsin Conservation Department, an agency of the state government of Wisconsin, produced a booklet which in part gave instruction on how to produce a fertilizer bomb.

In 1970 Vietnam War protesters packed a vehicle with the ingredients detailed in that booklet and thus created the world's first ANFO car bomb, the staple of car bombers to the present day...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hall_bom bing

[Teddio]

Most explosives are very stable and difficult to detonate, often needing a primer. Obtaining the raw materials is relatively easy but considerable technical know-how is needed to make a viable explosive device. For instance, the ingredients and proportions needed to make gunpowder are well known but it is extremely difficult to make a powder which can be considered to be an explosive.