Underground Explosive Secrets

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Underground Explosives Secrets

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Underground Explosive Secrets By Caleb Lee

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Underground Explosives Guide

With the direction the country is going, it seems more and more like we are heading into a major catastrophe ...

While the actual form of that catastrophe is still up for grabs, the country is likely to end up in financial ruin, social chaos, a civil war or under martial law.

We may even see more than one of those things happening at the same time.

With such a rosy outlook, it's no wonder that so many people are buying guns and stockpiling ammunition for them.

For the last few years, gun and ammo sales have outpaced any other time in our nation's history. There are more guns per capita now than ever before.

In a way, that's a bit funny ...

The liberals who control Washington keep talking about taking our guns away from us, but all they are succeeding in doing is putting more guns into honest citizens' hands.

Not only that, but the citizens who are buying the guns are conservatives, not liberals.

Should things break down and anarchy or civil war break out, those people would have written their own death sentence.

The Second Amendment was specifically created as part of the Bill of Rights so that We The People would have the ability to protect ourselves from tyranny.

The founding fathers had just fought a war against tyranny and they realized that as long as politicians existed, there was a risk that our nation would fall into tyranny once again. In order to make it possible for us to throw off an oppressive government, they ensured that we would have the right to fight against those government forces.

At the time that the Bill of Rights was written civilian arms and military arms were essentially the same thing. Muskets were muskets, whether owned by the Army or owned by private citizens. In fact, most went to war with their own firearms, rather than using issue guns.

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Other than rifles and pistols, the only real weapons of war that were used at that time were cannon. While cannon were much more powerful than rifles, they weren't restricted to government ownership.

Many merchant sailing ships had cannon as well, in order to protect themselves from pirates. The cannon which the Continental Army used in the Revolutionary War were mostly made, paid for and owned by private citizens, who saw it as their civic duty to acquire those cannon.

Today's military has weapons that the average individual couldn't think of owning.

Artillery, rockets, tanks, aircraft, missiles and bombs put the private citizen at a distinct disadvantage in any new revolution. Our only chance as citizens would be to manufacture our own explosives and use them in guerilla warfare.

Warning

Manufacturing your own explosives, without a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is illegal. This is something that could find you spending a considerable amount of time in jail if you were caught at it. Owning explosives is likewise considered illegal, regardless of their size. Even homemade fireworks are considered illegal. This report is for information and academic purposes only. You alone are entirely responsible for your actions!

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What Makes it Go Bang?

Let's talk a moment about what makes explosives work.

For any explosive to work, it needs three ingredients:

A rapidly burning combustible which creates a lot of hot expanding gas A casing to contain that hot expanding gas, up until it shatters An igniter start the combustible burning

It is possible to make an explosive without fire, if chemicals are used that react with each other or a material that decomposes rapidly is used; but even in these cases, the theory is the same.

The explosion isn't caused by burning; it's caused by the rapidly expanding gas. If the combustible material is placed in the open, rather than in a container, it won't explode; all it will do is to burn.

For it to explode, the pressure of the gas must reach a high enough point that it shatters the casing or container, causing pieces of shrapnel to scatter in all directions. That shrapnel is immediately followed by the pressure wave of the expanding gas. These two together are what cause the damage.

While the filler provides the explosive force, the casing provides most of the damage, except in the case of nuclear explosions. If the only purpose is to have explosive force, such as for demolition work or mining, then the casing is relatively unimportant.

However, if the purpose is to create damage or injury, using the explosive as a weapon, then the casing becomes even more important than the filler.

Of course, the casing must match the filler in that the filler is strong enough to shatter the casing.

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Pineapple Grenade

Baseball Grenade

The explosive grenade is a perfect example of this ...

The old Pineapple Grenade of the World War II era had an obviously scored casing. The purpose of this scoring was to provide clear lines for the grenade's casing to break apart, causing shrapnel that could wound enemy soldiers.

This was eventually replaced by the baseball grenade. This is manufactured out of a continual coil of steel, which is notched on the inside. That causes it to break into many more pieces than the pineapple grenades could, creating much more shrapnel to cause injuries.

So when one is designing any explosive to be used as a weapon, they need to pay as much attention to the container or casing, as they do to the combustible material inside.

On the other hand, if the explosive is being used purely to provide destructive force, but does not need shrapnel, such as in the case of building demolitions or opening a mine shaft, then the case is somewhat immaterial.

Dynamite, used for blasting in solid rock is encased in a cardboard tube. That tube is then placed in a hole drilled into the rock. In this manner, it doesn't provide anything in the way of effective shrapnel. None of the explosive force is wasted in breaking the casing apart and making shrapnel out of it. Instead all the force of the explosion is directed at the rock that the dynamite is encased in, splitting the rock open.

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Other types of explosive fillers provide a greater or lesser amount of explosive pressure than the TNT (trinitrotoluene) used in dynamite does.

While everyone wants the most bang they can get for their buck, these more powerful explosives are usually much more expensive. That limits them largely to military use.

The faster the explosive filler burns the more explosive energy it produces. You really can't get an explosion out of a wood fire, as all the oxygen in the container would be consumed before enough pressure is created.

On the other hand, gunpowder burns much more quickly, creating enough force to explode, or at least to push the bullet out of the muzzle of the gun with enough force that it seems like an explosion.

While most people think of a Molotov Cocktail as an explosive, it isn't actually one. The classic Molatov Cocktail is a glass bottle filled with gasoline. A piece of cloth is stuffed in the neck of the bottle as a wick and left hanging out. This wick is lit just before throwing the bottle.

The reason why the Molotov Cocktail isn't an explosive is that they aren't intended to explode. When the cocktail arrives at its destination, it breaks open, spewing the gas out which then burns. If it were thrown in such a way that it did not break open, then there is a chance that it would explode.

However, that's not the intent. The intent is that it is used as a fire bomb, with the idea of catching other things on fire.

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Let's Talk Fuses

Since most explosives burn (other than nuclear explosives) then we need something to start them burning. There are some chemical explosives which will start burning on their own, as soon as they are mixed together; but for most explosives, some external fire starter is necessary to get the fire going.

The classic formula for fire requires three ingredients:

Fuel Oxygen Heat

This is no different for explosives than it is for anything else. The explosive material itself provides the fuel, air that is trapped in the container with the explosive filler provides the oxygen and the fuse provides the heat. This heat can be in the form of a hot spark, a hot electrical wire or a flame, depending upon the type of fuse used.

In a modern pistol or rifle cartridge, the primer is the fuse for the controlled explosion that causes the cartridge to fire, expelling the bullet. The primer contains a chemical which is a primary explosive. Primary explosives are those that take very little outside stimuli to ignite. In the case of a cartridge primer, the outside stimulus is the hit from the firing pin, which causes the primary explosive to be crushed between the primer case and the anvil (a small piece of metal in the back of the primer). This produces a spark, which ignites the gunpowder.

For the sake of making your own explosives, there are two primary types of fuses that you can use effectively.

The first of these is an electronic fuse. This is what you commonly see in the movies, when a clock is attached to the side of a few sticks of dynamite to make a bomb.

The other is the standard, "slow burning" fuse. Both of these can be made rather easily.

Electronic Fuse

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