Improvised Munitions Handbook (Improvised Explosive Devices or ...

Improvised Munitions Handbook (Improvised Explosive Devices or IEDs)
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C.1 Version History
C.1.1 Version 1.0 (1969)
The only things known about the very first publication from 1969 are that it was printed in loose-leaf
form and on lighter paper than the widely-available v2.0 reprint. These are known because the
procedure for making an Improvised Scale shows a picture of loose hole-punched sheets and the text
says, “Each sheet of paper [of the Improvised Munitions Handbook] weighs about 1.3 grams.”
However, the reprint uses heavier paper that weighs about 4.5 grams a sheet.
C.1.2 Version 2.0 (1970s or 1980s)
A 6-by-9-inch (15-by-23-cm) trade paperback with a brownish-yellow cover, apparently a reprint of
the original publication, is referred to here as v2.0. It has been available to the public for decades,
particularly from alternative mail-order publishers and military surplus stores.
C.1.3 Version 3.0 (2007 – Thanks-to-Feinstein's Electronic Edition)
This electronic edition was created from the reprint described above. (“Thanks-to-Feinstein” is a
satirical reference to Senator Dianne Feinstein who passed a perverse law that erodes free speech in
the U.S.)
Diagrams were scanned at 300-dpi grey scale and saved as JPEG format. Text was scanned and
converted by optical character recognition, manually checked, and reformatted in HTML. The
colophon (this section) was added. A PDF file was created from the HTML files.
All corrections and changes made while converting the original paper document to electronic form
are listed below. Nothing substantial was changed; this electronic edition adheres as closely as
possible to v2.0.
Corrections and formatting in v3.0
1. Some words and phrases were corrected for spelling, consistency, or errors in metric
conversion.
2. Most abbreviations were expanded for clarity.
3. Trivial changes such as removing or adding whitespace, capitalization changes, or deleting
unnecessary periods at the end of words in a table are not itemized.
4. Hyphenation at ends of line were removed.
5. Words in ALL CAPITALS were changed to boldface.
6. Underlined words were changed to italics.
7. Words that were both ALL CAPITALS AND UNDERLINED were changed to boldface.
8.
Page numbers were removed, but the HTML source code has comments that indicate the v2.0
page numbers; look for “IMH v2.0 page number nnn” in the HTML source code of this