Safe Enough to Kill: Advances in the Chemistry of Explosives
Overview
Warfare took a deadly step forward with the invention and development of powerful explosives in the nineteenth century. Guncotton ...
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Explosives
Explosives are substances that produce violent chemical or nuclear reactions. These reactions generate large amounts of heat and gas in a fraction of a second. Shock waves produced by rapid...
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Explosives and Propellants
Explosions occur when gases in a confined space expand with a pressure and velocity that cause stresses greater than the confining structure can withstand. The gas expans...
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Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian terrorist network believed
to have links with al-Qaida, has changed its structure and set up a
military wing, an Indonesian antiterrorism police officer sa...
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Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian terrorist network believed
to have links with al-Qaida, has changed its structure and set up a
military wing, an Indonesian antiterrori...
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Baghdad (dpa) - At least 30 Iraqis were killed and 44 others
wounded Wednesday in three separate blasts across Iraq, sources said.
A car bomb detonated in Mothafer S...
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Spanish police acting on what appears to have been a hoax evacuated Ibiza airport Saturday after a telephone bomb threat and safely destroyed a suspicious bag in a controlled explosion, the Interio...
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With a federal indictment in place, state charges will be dismissed against two Egyptian-born students who were stopped last month with what authorities said were pipe bombs, a prosecutor said Tues...
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Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistani police have rounded up more than a
dozen people for questioning over last week's suicide bombings in the
southern port city of Karachi, officials...
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Madrid (dpa) - Spanish police have arrested two activists of the
armed Basque separatist group ETA who carried out one of ETA's
biggest attacks in recent years, Interior Min...
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A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a makeshift bomb that was found outside a clinic where abortions are performed, authorities said Friday.Paul Ross Evans has been charged with ...
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U.S. and Iraqi troops found a huge stash of weapons in a raid on the home of a Sunni lawmaker and detained at least a dozen men for questioning, officials said Sunday.Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi,...
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New Delhi (dpa) - A car carrying explosive material for quarry
work blew up in India's southern Tamil Nadu state Saturday, killing
at least 20 people and injuring another 20...
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