About _The Anarchist's Cookbook_: The recipe for Nitrogen Tri-Iodide has four steps to it. The first two make the proper chemical. The second two are drying agents that will make the stuff blow up in your face. The book has a number of other risky recipes. It also contains the infamous (false) "Banana Peel" rumor about how smoking banana peels can get you high. A recipe for LSD that is pretty poor. A bunch of other bogus drug stuff... There are much better sources for info on explosives. The government publications do a pretty good job. (I have seen a few on "how to make explosives from common items" and the like. Training for military personnel trapped behind enemy lines and traing local governments for uprisings and the like... The CIA even did a comic book for distribution in South America.