This interactive product for public safety personnel is intended to aid in visual recognition and establish a baseline understanding of materials and equipment associated with manufacturing Homemade Explosives (HME)/Improvised Explosives (IE) or constructing IEDs. Given the variety of commercial list of materials available for manufacturing HME/IE or constructing IEDs, this material list should not be considered all-inclusive.

Terrorism Prevention—policy and practice that focuses on
empowering individuals and communities to be resilient against
radicalization and mobilization to violence—can be a valuable
addition to traditional counterterrorism (CT) efforts that focus on
law enforcement investigations and arrests. Terrorism prevention
activities work to proactively address risk factors, build or
strengthen protective factors, and intervene with individuals who
may be radicalizing or mobilizing to violence. Local stakeholders are best positioned to identify early risk
factors that may make an individual more susceptible and to intervene before violence occurs.