Of the hundreds of types of explosives, most are solid and only about a dozen are liquid. But some of those liquid explosives can be readily bought, and others can be put together from hundreds of ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Acetone peroxide, the explosive reportedly used by the London bombers last week, is a favoured weapon of ...
The brutal attacks on Paris in November relied on a homemade explosive discovered over a century ago. Called triacetone triperoxide (TATP), it’s a chemical that uses hydrogen peroxide — the stuff you ...