Explosive Dusts: Advanced Improvised Explosives [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Seymour Lecker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1991 | ISBN-10: 0873645871 | ISBN-13: 978-0873645874 | Edition: illustrated edition

Demolitions expert Seymour Lecker reveals the little-known but deadly nature of more than 40 explosive dusts, all of which have been deemed severe explosive hazards by the U.S. government. Includes clear plans for simple devices that harness the violent properties of these unstable dusts. For information purposes only.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Paladin Press; illustrated edition edition (January 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873645871
• ISBN-13: 978-0873645874
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,524,900 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lecker outdoes himself in the information he DOESN'T provide, December 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Explosive Dusts: Advanced Improvised Explosives (Paperback)

Perhaps Lecker is just trying to cash in on his flashy, tantalizing titles to attract attention and to get rich selling worthless tidbits of information to truly concerned, honest and patriotic citizens of the world.

Lecker had 56 pages in which to honestly provide the information he purportedly offered to sell his potential readers, but instead, he provided his readers with a mere listing of 39 mostly unobtainable exotic industrial chemicals and metal dusts which might become explosive in dispersed dust form, with a 20 to 50 word very general and brief description of each, but nothing on how to use them or avoid explosions.

On one page he listed the names ONLY of 30 foods, that if powered could become explosive under certain conditions, which he did not even describe. He just listed the names of the foods.

For all the information he supplied all he had to do was to tell the reader in one sentence that if you take ANY substance, especially any organic matter, and if you powder it, it will become explosive if it is dispersed in the air, and it is properly ignited.

For the information I just stated in the above sentence, I should be paid as much as Lecker for his entire book.

Lecker includes 3 drawings of explosive devices used to disperse the dusts but does not describe how to construct them and gives no further details nor how they operate nor safety precautions to observe. The fact that he leaves out this important information may be due in part as to why he titled this book: Explosive Dusts - ADVANCED Improvised Explosives. Since he purports to relay ADVANCED information, he may expect the reader to know everything he leaves out????? Wouldn't it have been better to just repeat some of his basic information he published in his more basic books??? But, maybe he couldn't because so far ALL of his books are written the same: NO useable information.

Again, as in his other books, Lecker has one redeeming value in his book: he lists 8 sources in a bibliography on explosive dusts, but this could have been obtained from a library catalog card file!

Sadly, again, I must advise the prospective reader to totally forget this book, don't waste his or her money, time, effort, and frustration and go to the library instead.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What have you done Seymour.......?, July 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Explosive Dusts: Advanced Improvised Explosives (Paperback)

I was shocked and angry after I've buyed this book,it was a waste of $8.00,due Seymour Lecker discovers in his book chemical substances never heard even by chemists and they are so hard to find, so expensive and so sophisticated that reading and buying this book is simply a waste of time. And his ideas and devices how to make the dusts explosive already failed.