A chemist sets out the facts about the liquid explosive TATP, said to have been planned for use in the latest terrorist scare. In short, it would be very near to impossible to manage to manufacture it in a plane – it is not just like in the movies, when the baddie pours two liquids together and BOOM.
I’m reminded that Ronald Reagan is said to have “announced the ‘Star Wars’ missile defence system” while having a bit of fiction/fact confusion, and everything since has beenb a vain attempt to achieve this “vision”.
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