Russia drops high-explosive bombs on Sloviansk, damaging co-working centre, café and apartment buildings – photos

Russian forces dropped high-explosive aerial bombs on the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast on Friday, damaging housing, a ...

US Army plans new ‘Center of Excellence’ for explosives to boost RDX, HMX production

U.S. Army plans new explosives research and manufacturing center at Blue Grass Army Depot to modernize aging munitions ...
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Simulations reveal microscopic hot-spot formation in high explosives

When high explosives are subjected to sudden shock waves, such as from an impact or detonation, tiny regions of intense heat—called hot spots—form at microstructural defects such as pores. These hot ...
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High explosives in slow motion: Freezing molecules in place shows chemical reactions

Safe and effective high explosives are critical to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) mission of stockpile stewardship. It is relatively simple to study the composition of such material ...
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New Orleans attacker tried to use high explosive that could have killed hundreds

The New Orleans truck attacker built two bombs using what investigators believe was an explosive so powerful that they could have sprayed shrapnel hundreds of yards and potentially killed or wounded ...

Trial starts in case of explosives sent to UK and Poland

The trial has opened in the Polish capital, Warsaw, of five men suspected of involvement in sending parcels containing a ...
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Existing and Potential Standoff Explosives Detection Techniques

a For additional listings of explosives considered important in forensic investigations, see TWGFEX: The Technical Working Group for Fire and Explosions, http://www ...