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...obtain weapons material, the rods can be dissolved in nitric acid, and plutonium can be separated, then chemically purfied to create weapons-grade plutonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Down the Risky Path | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...blew out seven stories of the World Trade Center sounds so simple that it is easy to forget just how dangerous it is. First, go to any gardening center and chemical-supply house. For little more than $400, buy several 100-lb. bags of urea and some bottles of nitric and sulfuric acid. Mix the urea and acids into a thick paste, put the glop in plastic bags, then pack them in a cardboard box. Next attach either a blasting cap or a detonator made of some batteries, an alarm clock and a container of nitroglycerine. But be very, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $400 Bomb | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...Friday federal authorities raided Space Station, a storage facility about a mile from the apartment where Salameh once lived. Witnesses saw three trucks emerge, hauling away what were thought to be containers of sulfuric acid, nitric acid and urea, chemicals that could be used to make explosives. Jersey City police would say only that they "found a lot of stuff that may be linked to Salameh" and took it to an undisclosed destination for examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case of Dumb Luck | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...only ozone-creating molecule generated by humans is nitric oxide, but the molecule must be first converted to nitrogen dioxide before it can form ozone...

Author: By Amanda C. Rawls, | Title: Bromine Enters the Equation | 2/16/1993 | See Source »

Stella Kourembanas, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School, said a great deal of attention has been focused on nitric oxide since the discovery in 1987 of its effects on the lung's blood vessels. In 1992, Science named the compound "Molecule of the Year...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Study Finds Benefits of Pollutant | 2/11/1993 | See Source »

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