The compounds that Andrew Hallock made at home were extremely explosive. Acetone peroxide: This explodes with a force of up to 27,000 feet per second. It is made of materials available through retail ...

Terrorists like acetone peroxide because it’s the rare explosive that doesn’t contain nitrogen, the key ingredients bomb detectors search for. It’s also cheap, easy to make at home and so unstable ...

The Afghan immigrant accused of buying large quantities of hair dye and nail polish remover to make explosives had the goods to kill scores of people in New York - a devastating attack on a scale with ...

ROCKVILLE – A UConn physics professor whose Storrs neighborhood was evacuated when his 13-year-old son detonated a homemade bomb in January routinely helped the boy make bombs and had some of the ...

The time is now for hazmat teams to develop and/or expand their working relationship with their local bomb squad. Why? In the past year, there have been several cases in which first responders and ...

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The Afghan immigrant accused of buying large quantities of hair dye and nail polish remover to make explosives had the goods to kill scores of people in New York — a devastating attack on a scale with ...

WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK — A federal grand jury in New York indicted a Denver man on a terrorism charge Thursday after federal authorities alleged that he and possibly three others had gone on a buying ...

After last year's London bus bombings that used acetone peroxide explosives, I attempted to alert the U.S. government to the advisability of denaturing acetone and related ketone solvents available to ...

An Oklahoma man was arrested Sunday after Chandler police found a homemade explosive during a traffic stop, officials said. Ralph Ruegsegger, 53, was arrested along with the vehicle's driver, Levi ...