Explosives Camp

theodp writes "How about a summer camp where you get in trouble for not blowing things up? Students with a passion for all things explosive and proof of US citizenship pay a $450 fee to attend Summer Explosives Camp, 'We try to give them an absolute smorgasbord of explosives,' quipped a professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla, which offers a minor in explosives engineering. Here's the brochure (PDF), kids!"

Comments

Re:What's good for the goose...

[bdjacobson]

Right, so it's OK for USA to teach its kids about explosives? Imagine the outcry if someone heard about a similar program taking place, say, in Iran. I can already see the headline we would be getting: "Iran training dozens of kids into becoming terrorists with an expertise in explosives."

This is the same sort of fuzzy logic we see with USA possessing nuclear weapons and yet demanding that Iran be prevented from ever having any.

You're the only one useing the fuzzy logic here. The US doesn't have religious radicals that go blow themselves up because someone made fun of Jesus. Iran does that would blow themselves up if someone poked fun at Muhammad. That's the whole reason why South Park pulled an ep until they could replace the blasphemic Islamic material with a statue of Mary and make fun of her.

Your notion that somehow it's same for us to do this as if Iran were doing it is the typical /. baseless USA bashing. Please come up with something original. By your low user ID I thought you would have known better. Or perhaps you do and were simply in search of free mod points. Regardless, point is it's the same reason it's ok for us to have nukes and not allow Iran/NK/China to have them. They would use them. We haven't since WW2, and probably won't considering all the fighting we do now is against rogue undercover militias.

Re:Safety isn't first

[charlieman]

Some child threatened to blow up a building from the middle east and he was deported 12 hours later.

Gee, you paranoid americans can't take on a joke right?