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Brotherhood of Anarchists - volume 1, issue 3
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The Brotherhood of Anarchists June 1995
volume 1 number 2
By the ever-so mighty Dos Loco
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Whuzup? Once again here comes another action packed issue of
the BHOA! I'm pretty damned excited too. 1. It's summer 2. I am not
grounded 3. I can devote time to this! I don'gt feel like writing a
big intro (It's a big waste of time!). So lets get started on some cool shit.
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The Hearts and Diamonds Bomb
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Chapter 54 of Tom Robbins' 1980 novel, Still Life with a Woodpecker,
describes a fantastic "Hearts and Diamonds Bomb":
Take a deck of ordinary playing cards, the old-fashioned paper
kind, cut out all the red spots and soak them over night like
beans. Alchohol is the best soaking solution, but tap water
will suffice. Plug one end of a short length pipe. Pack the
soggy hearts and diamonds into the pipe. On the pre-plastic
playing cards, the red spots were printed with a diazo dye,
a chemical that has an unstable, high energy bond with nitro-
gen. So now you've got nitro, of sorts, now you'll be needing
glycerin. Hand lotion will work nicely. Glug a little lotion into
the pipe. To activate the quasi-nitroglycerin you'll require
potassium permanganate. That you can find in the snake-bite
section of any good first aid kit. Add a dash of potassium per-
manganate and pug the other end of the pipe. Heat the pipe.
A direct flame is best, but simply laying the pipe atop a
hot radiator will turn the trick. Take cover!
In the context, most readers dismiss this as a whimsy. But the hearts and
diamonds bomb and the other bombs Robbins describes are real. Similar
bomb recipes appear in William Powell's The Anarchists Cookbook, an
underground weapons manual.
What Robbins calls the jug band bomb is a working homemade bomb.
It is a glass jug containing a few drops of gasoline. Thejug is capped
and turned around so the gasoline coats the inner surface and evaporates.
A few drops of potassium permanganate solution make the vapor/air mixture
all the more explosive. The bomb is detonated by throwing or forcibly
rolling against a wall.
Whether the hearts and diamonds bomb would work is debateable.
Robbins makes certain substitutions in the usual recipe:
hand lotion rather than pure glycerine, a snake bite nostrum rather than
a potassium permanganate solution of known strength.
Assume then that pure glycerin and pottasium permanganate are
used. You might get a bomb by mixing diazo compounds with glycerin
and potassium permanganate. The question is how much diazo dye could be
extracted from the red card spots.
The staff historian for the U.S. Playing Card Company admitted
to hearing of the bomb stories but was not aware of any working bomb having
been constructed. In any case, the main problem with the recipe is that
there is nothing "ordinary" about old-fashioned paper playing cards.
efectively all the cards are now plastic coated.
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I personally think that the Anarchist Cookbook is a must for any young
aspiring anarchist such as myself. The only draw back of the Anarchist
Cookbook is that it is highly inacurate at times.
If you are interested in buying the Anarchist cookbook here is the
sending adress and price.
-Anarchist Cookbook
Barricade Books
box 1401-y
Secaucus, NJ 07096
Price-$25.00
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This issue was written strictly for any to read not to actually be
used and it is realized that by downloading any of this material I
Dos Loco am not responsible for any injuries or other things of sorts.
It is also brought to my readers attention that I had better never find
anyone elses name or altrications on this material or I will find
you and put my knowledge to use. In other words be cool with me
and I'll be cool with you!
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Well thats all for now. Stay cool!
Peace Out,
the ever so mighty,
Dos Loco
Loked out and all
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