An unbelievable study of the preparation of explosives from the most common & accessible items, initially done for the CIA. Section I covers the preparation of Lead Picrate, Picric Acid From Aspirin, etc.. In Section II covers laboratory methods for preparing promising explosives such as Lead Azide, Nitrourea, Mannitol Hexanitrate Nitromannitrolf, Trishydrazine-zinc (II) Nitrate, Fulminating Silver, Diaminesilver (I) Chlorate, Triacetonetriperoxide and more. Indeed a fantastic and informative book covering a seldom touched upon the subject.