This manual describes the process of creating and detonating a wide variety of explosives.
Construction of the devices described in the book is generally illegal, in addition to being highly dangerous.
According to the file's revision information, a version of TBBOM, then known as The Terrorist's Handbook (by The Jolly Roger), was compiled between 1987 and 1989.
The more familiar version, built on the Handbook and other underground BBS text resources, was first posted in the early morning of August 8, 1990, as The Complete Terrorist Today.
In 2018, teenager Jack Coulson was sent to youth custody for four years and eight months after admitting that he had downloaded the book to his phone.