Originally Posted by
birdstrike
That is true. @:-) In my high school library there were also chemical formularies that contained info on making everything from toothpaste to TNT. ^
Last I saw, though, Wikipedia's WikiBooks have had synthesis instructions of various explosives which were fairly accurate (for the ones I've any experience with, anyway--I'd never touch TATP, so I can't verify their instructions for it).
My high school chemistry teacher did have a huge volume of various synthesises, and IIRC, it did include several explosives and even a few organophosphate compounds.