Man who planned ricin bomb sent to prison in Germany, cops say bioterror plot thwarted

There’s an obvious difference between deliberately poking a particular person with a ricin-tipped umbrella and causing an explosion with lots of ricin-coated shrapnel that might or might not actually hit someone. How many beans does it take to make enough ricin to coat all the nails or ball bearings in a home-made bomb, and how likely is an amateur bomb-builder to survive making all that ricin without a fatal accident?

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