[Viet-Boat-Rider]

Some experts now put worldwide stockpiles of Semtex at 40,000 tons.

WOW! I would like to see all 40,000 tons go off all at once.

[Freesofar]

interesting thanks.
I witnessed the power of Ammonium Nitrate up close while helping a comercial explosives expert blow a rock for excavating. A coffee can full of the common fertilizer from a bag, primed with a cap and a pinch of plasticX blew the solid rock into boulders the size of small cars 4-6 feet off the ground.

[Turk82_1]

When in the Army, we did a 300# Ammonium Nitrate detonation. Although we were about 400 yards away, the 5-ton truck bounced right off the ground due to ground shock. Then the clods of earth, the size of a torso were slamming into the ground up to half a mile away. It was pretty hairy there for a min or so.

[spodefly]

I have some M-80's ... the real kind, not those foofy child safe ones ...

Thanks for the article!