Posted on 12/19/2005 1:29:57 PM PST by CedarDave
Officials Fret Over Disappearance Of Explosives 150 Pounds Of Explosives Missing From Sandia-Affiliated Company
POSTED: 2:10 pm MST December 19, 2005 UPDATED: 2:17 pm MST December 19, 2005
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Officials discovered hundreds of pounds of explosives stolen in Albuquerque on Sunday.
One hundred fifty pounds of c4, 250 pound deta sheet, and 2,000 blasting caps were taken from a Sandia Labs employee's company.
Officials are very concerned about these thefts.
The items were stolen from a facility in Southwest Albuquerque.
Burglars apparently cut through steel bars to get at the goods.
C4 is a plastic explosive.
A deta sheet is another explosive that looks like a rubbery sheet of orange or green paper.
What makes deta sheets especially dangerous is that they can be hidden in books or letters. It cannot be spotted by a metal detector but are used by engineers for detonation.
Blasting caps are devices used to set off explosives.
If you know anything about the disappearance, please call police.
Copyright 2005 by TheNewMexicoChannel.com.
From my reading of the two stories, I beleive the explosives were all taken from the same location though maybe not the same unit or magazine.
I had a thing for Mavis Beacon as a kid.
I won't say much but C-4 can be used to make shape charges. Very safe material to transport and deploy because it requires an explosive charge (blasting cap) to cause detonation. It will burn with exploding which is a great safety feature.
" Hmmmm. I can put together a reliable detonator fairly easily"
One that can be detonated electrically and won't blow your fingers off if you handle it the wrong way? You're a talented man.
Please see my #75.
It will burn withOUT exploding which is a great safety feature.
They just don't make Cherry bombs like they used to.
Four hills and the airport are southeast. I wonder if he had something west of Coors up on the mesa, by Coors and Gunclub. Haven't been down in that area in years, in may be overbuilt with homes by now.
Thank you for correcting the text.
Let me know if we blow up
Hard to tell. There's also a lot of industrial/storage in the South Broadway area.
Thanks for the info.
For some reason this theft has me particularly worried. I dunno, just a gut feeling. Damnit, the gut's never been wrong.
It looks like the address for them on Catron Ct buts right up against the base. Not sure if that's not just admin offices though since that would be SE Alb.
Do you want to find out with a rolling pin?
One small drop of nitroglycerin on red hot iron when I was young sounds like a 20mm shell going off in my later military years. That was the end of my chemistry set:)
Which made it ideal for heating "C's" and coffee. In my platoon I would designate 2 guys to carry two half pounds each for cooking. Pull off a nickle sized piece, roll into a ball, pinch a "wick" off to one side. Burns fast and HOT.
It's probably and inside job to get rid of journalists.
No....but I can read....make sure you check out nichrome wires for rockets motors....
http://www.unitednuclear.com/exper.htm
Nothing yet at the Journal site or on Channel 4. Even Drudge links to the ABC News story.
"WHICH place? Per the ABC article, the explosives were stoled from two different locations, both connected to former Sandia Labs scientist Chris Cherry"
well, I sure hope they are looking at any engineers they may have recently hired from the middle east!! Sounds like an inside job even to a novice. Geez...this is bad!
We knew what you meant....darn typing fingers....
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