[Tuxedo]

Actually, it is pretty easy to make a lot of high explosives from readily available household chemicals. The problem is not in the manufacture, but knowing how to handle and store them. I'd suspect most people would blow themselves up trying to make something from such crude sources. And the info is readily available on the internet, and most chemists could do it in their sleep. In the case of HMDT, the precursor hexamine is likely to be picked up by a trained dog. The danger of hydrogen peroxide is that it is odorless.

[DBrow]

A bunch of kids could read, not from the Web, but from the "respected" CNN, how to make explosives, and the TV will stress how goshdarned EASY it is.

If they get a nitroguanidine recipe from some usenet post, they may think it's cool, and do nothing. But a talking head who tells them to mix A and B from the hardware store and beauty shop will be a stronger stimulus.

TV is a more powerful medium. I feel it carries more weight than a scanned-in copy of The Cookbook. Lots of kids get hurt attempting stunts from some show, is it Jackass?

We are at war, why broadcast terror recipes far and wide?

Somehow an image of Dan Rather explaining how to make Thermite from an old ladder and rusty car comes to mind....