Word: know-how
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...trust the feds enough to suggest that they police themselves. Joel Breshin, head of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, finds the moniker "almost laughable" as a militia title. And he maintains that, in his state at least, the skinheads who might find the name attractive "don't have the know-how" to pull off the derailment. A veteran FBI agent not assigned to the case was even more dismissive. "Sons of Gestapo," he snorted. "Bullshit. If somebody really wanted to get us chasing our tail, they'd have signed it Arizona Militia...
...Apollo moon missions, from 1967 to 1972, provided cubic tons of melodrama, from the explosion of the Apollo 1 test module that killed three astronauts to Neil Armstrong's buoyant lunar stroll from Apollo 11. The apogee of American know-how and teamwork, the program could, at the flick of a wrong switch, careen from triumph to tragedy. In this job, success meant you forged the ultimate frontier; failure meant you died with the whole world watching...
...significant factor in the increase in bombings is that the dissemination of bomb know-how has become a minor industry. The past few decades have produced the rise of mail-order publishing companies that serve the so-called gun aftermarket, including the gun fanciers, survivalists, wannabe cops and closet anarchists who like to shop for such products as laser sights, camouflage, fake badges and fake fbi and atf hats. Some of their most popular offerings are "burn-and-blow'' books that describe in detail how to make landmines, booby traps and bombs. "The information is available on the Internet...
Technological Know...
...ammonium nitrate for about 11¢ a pound doesn't mean that anyone can make it explode at a particular time and place. The act of terror that demolished the Murrah building and destroyed scores of human lives required a basic understanding of chemistry, skill at bombmaking and some technical know-how to jury-rig a few key components that are not easy...