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  • Volumetric explosives/Definition
    ...external air oxidizer, including [[fuel-air explosives]] and [[thermobaric explosives]]
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  • Talk:Mach effect
    == No need for explosives == The current introduction and definition read as if explosives were necessary to cause a Mach effect. More conventional propulsion techniq
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  • Thermobaric explosives/Definition
    ...nal combustion energy in addition to the detonation energy of conventional explosives
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  • Countermining
    ...ften accomplished with [[sympathetic detonation]] from deliberately placed explosives, or with gunfire. ...may be made with [[line charge]]s creating paths, or by use of [[fuel-air explosives]] or other bombs producing blast over a large area.
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  • TNT (explosive)/Definition
    ...(e.g., TNT has a [[brisance]] of 1.0 while the brisance of the [[plastic explosives|plastic explosive]], [[Composition C-4]], is 1.34)
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  • Detonator/Definition
    That part of an [[explosives|explosive assembly]] that contains the [[explosives#primary explosive|primary explosive]], the mechanism for initiating the exp
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  • User:Yuval Langer/Explosives
    #REDIRECT Explosives
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  • Cobalt(II) nitrate
    ...has been used in some explosives, and is used in the preparation of other explosives such as [[ammonium perchlorate]].
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  • Nitrostarch
    The first true [[explosives|high explosive]], first synthesized in 1833 by Henri Braconnot,<ref name=E | date = September 1984 | title = Military Explosives}}, p. 2-5</ref> '''nitrostarch''' is of the family of [[aliphatic nitrate e
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  • Template:Explosive trains.png/credit
    {{creditline|PD|Diagram|U.S. Army Military Explosives Technical Manual }}
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  • Template:Thermobaric explosives/Metadata
    | pagename = Thermobaric explosives | abc = Thermobaric explosives
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  • Organic nitrate explosives
    '''Organic nitrate explosives''' are the most common modern explosives, all compounds or compositions in which the major source of energy comes fr
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  • Sympathetic detonation
    '''Sympathetic detonation''' of explosives takes place when an "acceptor" explosive detonates from the blast of a near ...Understanding the Sympathetic Detonation Charactistics of Insensitive High Explosives
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  • Explosive power/Definition
    The total power available from an [[explosives|explosive]], measured with various tests of its ability to move mass rather
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  • Nitrostarch/Definition
    The first true [[explosives|high explosive]], synthesized in 1833 and still used in some commercial bla
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  • Blast (explosives)/Definition
    The process by which explosives convert to pressure in air or shock waves in more dense materials
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  • Nitroglycerin/Definition
    A very unstable, shock-sensitive [[explosives|high-explosive]] which also has medical uses as a [[vasodilator]] in heart
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  • Detonator
    ...., triggered with a burning [[fuse]]) [[blasting cap]] for manually placed explosives, under reasonable environmental conditions.
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  • Detonation velocity/Definition
    The rate at which the detonation reaction propagates through an [[explosives|explosive material]]; in general, [[brisance]] is proportional to it
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  • Explosively formed projectile/Definition
    A technique of using controlled explosives to direct a blast wave, or materials near it, into a desired shape
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  • George Kistiakowsky/Definition
    (1900 – 1982), leader of the chemical explosives team of the Manhattan Project
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  • Aluminium powder/Definition
    When added to explosives, increases the detonation velocity of explosions or the specific impulse of
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  • Pyrotechnic component/Definition
    An engineering part that uses small amounts of explosives to shear or insert fasteners, provide inflation gas, weld or shape, or sign
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  • Nitrocellulose
    Among the first true explosives|high explosive, '''nitrocellulose''' was first synthesized in 1845 by Chris | date = September 1984 | title = Military Explosives}}, p. 2-5</ref> It is of the family of aliphatic nitrate esters produced by
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  • Nitroaromatics/Definition
    Explosives with a core [[aromatic hydrocarbon]] structure to which nitro groups, commo
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  • Blast (disambiguation)
    {{rpl|Blast (explosives)}}
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  • Organic nitrate explosives/Definition
    The most common modern class explosives, all compounds or compositions in which the major source of energy comes fr
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  • Mercury fulminate/Definition
    ...compound that was widely used as the initial element in the triggering of explosives or firearms ammunition; it has largely been replaced by [[lead azide]] prep
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  • Reactive armor/Definition
    ...assive protection of tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, which uses explosives to interfere with the effects of antitank weapons
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  • Dynamite/Definition
    A family of explosives, first invented by [[Alfred Nobel]], in which [[nitroglycerin]] is adsorbed
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  • Template:Blast (explosives)/Metadata
    | pagename = Blast (explosives) | abc = Blast (explosives)
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  • DMDNB/Definition
    ...[[vapor pressure]], 2,3-dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane, used to tag [[plastic explosives]] and increase the probability of their detection
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  • Template:Organic nitrate explosives/Metadata
    | pagename = Organic nitrate explosives | abc = Organic nitrate explosives
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  • Volatility (explosives)/Definition
    Explosives that are mixtures of ingredients that tend to separate, either reducing the
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  • Lead styphnate/Definition
    ...ities, generally replaced by [[lead azide]]; sometimes used for commercial explosives and as an igniter for lead azide
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  • Hit-to-kill
    ...rring mechanical energy to the target, rather than using explosive force. Explosives, however, are also kinetic-kill, but disabling with [[electronic warfare]] ...against an incoming ballistic missile is far greater than any non-nuclear explosives would provide.
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  • Countermining/Definition
    ...sing [[sympathetic detonation]], principally caused by deliberately placed explosives
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  • Plastic explosives/Definition
    Explosives made with a soft, flexible, binder to give a dough-like consistency; especi
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  • Lead azide
    | date = September 1984 | title = Military Explosives}}, pp. 7-1 to 7-5</ref> ...iators with respect to storage stability, impact sensitivity, and tertiary explosives it can detonate without a booster. There are several variants of mechanical
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  • Lead azide/Definition
    ...iators with respect to storage stability, impact sensitivity, and tertiary explosives it can detonate without a booster; several variants of mechanical propertie
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  • Tokko/Definition
    ...nned [[torpedo]]es ([[kaiten]]), explosive-laden speedboats, soldiers with explosives on their bodies or on poles, etc.
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  • Mine (siege)
    ...ique - mining - calls on finding a way to covertly sneak a large supply of explosives underneath the fortification, and then detonating the explosion - perhaps c ...ortification has unguarded [[sewers]] it may be possible to covertly place explosives within that sewer.
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  • Gunpowder/Definition
    ...der black powder was used as a warhead filler before the invention of high explosives; also used in pyrotechnics
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  • Mercury fulminate
    ...vely easy to prepare, it has been replaced, in manufactured ammunition and explosives, principally by [[lead azide]] preparations, which have better storage prop | date = September 1984 | title = Military Explosives}}, pp. 2-4 to 2-6}}</ref>
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  • Jackhammer/Definition
    ...(tool)]] and [[drill (tool)]], powered by compressed air, electricity, and explosives, and used in excavation and demolition
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  • Brisance/Definition
    The shattering power of an [[explosives|explosive]]; a measure of the rate at which it develops its maximum [[deton
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  • Tetracene/Definition
    ...ve ignition; commercial use as too weak to detonate virtually all military explosives
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  • Reactive armor
    ...it protects the tank or other vehicle by covering it with explosives. The explosives, however, are layered on top of the conventional passive armor. When struck
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  • Volatility (disambiguation)
    {{rpl|Volatility (explosives)}}
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  • Deflagration/Definition
    ...ubsonic) self-sustaining combustion in explosive materials, especially low explosives such as black gunpowder and desensitized smokeless powder; the combustion w
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  • Overpressure
    ..., most often nuclear or of a [[explosives#volumetric explosives|volumetric explosives]]. It is referred
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  • Straight dynamite/Definition
    A class of [[nitroglycerin]] based explosives, for commercial applications, containing 20 to 60 percent nitroglycerin, so
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  • Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene/Definition
    ...fferent viscosities, used as a binder for [[PBX (explosive)|plastic-bonded explosives]] and solid-fuel [[rocket engine]]s, as an adhesive and sealant, and as a f
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  • BDNPA-F/Definition
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  • RDX (explosive)/Definition
    ...litary explosive; a member of the [[nitramine]] class of [[organic nitrate explosives]]
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  • W88 (nuclear weapon)/Definition
    ...with high accuracy and increased safeguards, although not insensitive high explosives that would not improve safety on a submarine
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  • User:Yuval Langer
    ...unfathomable bad stub [[User:Yuval Langer/Explosives]] then moved it into Explosives
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  • Thermobaric explosives
    {{main|Explosives}} ...greater effects. The class of volumetric explosives also contain fuel-air explosives, which have both similarities to and differences from volumetrics.
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  • User:Jerry Durand
    ...or manned space flight and other life-critical hardware. Holder of an ATF explosives permit, hobby builder of display fireworks.
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  • Thermobaric explosives/Related Articles
    {{r|Volumetric explosives||**}}
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  • Hydrodynamic testing/Definition
    During an high-speed event driven by explosives, such as the implosion of a [[fission device]], the high pressures and tem
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  • Gunpowder/Related Articles
    {{r|Low explosives}}
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  • Primer (ammunition)/Definition
    The assembly that contains a sensitive [[explosives#primary explosive|primary explosive]] intended to initiate the propellant t
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  • Brisance
    '''Brisance''' is a quantitative measure of the shattering power of explosives. Simply, it is the rate at which the explosive develops its maximum [[deton | date = September 1984 | title = Military Explosives}}, p. 3-4</ref>
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  • Nitroglycerin/Related Articles
    {{r|High explosives}}
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  • Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale Cress)/External Links
    ...otection] uses a genetically modified thale cress to detect compounds like explosives (land mines)
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  • Hit-to-kill/Definition
    ...d an intercept vehicle. It is a subset of [[kinetic kill]], which includes explosives and other physically destructive "hard kill" mechanisms.
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  • Smallpox/External Links
    ;Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE) - Smallpox. Written more for laypeople. : http://emedicine.medscape
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  • Electromagnetic pulse
    ...but also by the operation of specialized generators driven by conventional explosives, which produces radiation in the radiofrequency and lower-frequency electri }}</ref>. Several open-literature techniques, requiring only conventional explosives, or, in the case of high power microwave, a large electrical power supply,
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  • Hague Conventions
    **Hague IV - Prohibiting Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons : July 29, 1899 ***Declaration I - on the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons; July 29, 1899
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  • TNT equivalent/Bibliography
    ...te journal| author=M. Held | title=TNT − Equivalent | journal=Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics | volume=8 | issue=5 | pages=pp. 158-167 | date=October 1983
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  • Seymour Wittek
    | known_for = heroically fought a fire, on a ship loaded with explosives, in NYC, during World War II ...heroically fought a fire on the ''[[El Estero]]'', a freighter laden with explosives, on April 24, 1943.<ref name=nytimes2010-01-03/>
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  • UGM-27 Titan II
    ...ion system of the W53 did not use one of the newer, safer insensitive high explosives. In spite of this incident, or perhaps because of it, the Titan II was con
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  • Hydrodynamic testing
    {{main|Testing of explosives}} ...ding]]. They also can be used to study the characteristics of new types of explosives.
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  • U.S. Department of Justice
    *[[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives]];
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  • Blast (explosives)
    '''Blast''' is the process by which explosives, in a millisecond or less, are converted to hot explosive gases. Depending | date = September 1984 | title = Military Explosives}}, p. 4-11 to 4-13</ref> While the emphasis here is on the gases and the s
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  • Line charge
    ...devices, usually by triggering [[sympathetic detonation]] of the emplaced explosives. Other applications include breaking ice packs or log jams.
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  • File talk:Thermobaric vs HE.png
    ...t provided by this image is too low to merit inclusion here, especially if explosives is to be approved. I also checked the origin and saw that it was actually n
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  • Columbine High School massacre
    ...ered the school and found explosives inside. The SWAT officers defused the explosives, and the two killers ended their own lives at noon. Students were escorted
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  • Talk:Nitroglycerin
    Underlinked because it's not linked from (the non-existant) Explosives article. [[User:Yuval Langer|Yuval Langer]] 06:14, 6 September 2007 (CDT)
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  • Potassium nitrate
    As opposed to [[ammonium nitrate]], it is not easily [[explosives|explosive]] by itself, and, even with additives, only as a low explosive.
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  • Millennium Plot, United States
    ...Customs officer Diana Dean observed him acting suspiciously, and carrying explosives for an attack on [[Los Angeles International Airport]].<ref name=Clarke>{{c
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  • Toxic, infectious or radiological compounds
    ...lication 3-41: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives Consequence Management
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  • Methane
    &minus;184 <sup>0</sup>C. It is highly combustible and forms an [[Explosives|explosive]] mixture with air. The gas is formed by decomposition of plant a
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  • File:Coast Guard Seaman 2nd Class Seymour Wittek, a World War II veteran, smiles for a portrait before he is awarded the Coast Guard Commendation Medal, at the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum Nov. 11, 2008.jpg
    ...while it was ablaze April 24, 1943. The Elstero was carrying 1,300 tons of explosives, as were surrounding naval vessels. The actions of Wittek and his brave cre
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  • I.G. Farben
    ...producing [[synthetic rubber]]. Farben companies were key parts of German explosives production. They were even part of the production of [[Zyklon B]] used as
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  • Demolitions
    Explosives are widely used to force the building collapse, most dramatically in contro
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  • Decontamination
    ..., toxic chemicals (including [[chemical weapon]]s, fire hazards, scattered explosives, radioactive materials, etc. Decontamination is concerned with the immedia One of the realities of dealing with explosives is that it is not always possible to [[render-safe|render them safe]], eith
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  • Raduga KSR-5
    ...nal warhead. The mass and speed of the missile, combined with conventional explosives, make it a much greater threat against ships, for example, than the smaller
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  • Talk:Artillery
    ...late, such as explosives for the propellant and warheads, insensitive high explosives for the recent shell fillings, [[guided shell]] and subarticles, [[155mm ho
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  • Pyrotechnic component
    ...plications for '''pyrotechnic components''', which use small quantities of explosives to achieve a desired mechanical result.
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  • Bomb
    ...). Small bombs that can be thrown by hand are usually called [[grenade]]s. Explosives that are carried by the user to the target and detonated against it, with t ...h far less danger to adjacent people and things that if the bomb contained explosives.
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  • Neutron activation analysis
    ...ainless steel or [[aluminium]], materials that react violently with water, explosives and highly flammable substances, and materials that pose exceptional danger ===Explosives===
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  • Northrop Grumman 30mm Bushmaster Mark 44 autocannon
    ...unds, not available for the older weapon. In particular, it can fire high explosives designed to spray shrapnel at a precise distance, allowing the gunner to ta
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  • User talk:Yuval Langer
    == Explosives approved == Explosives has been approved! Congratulations on a job well done. --[[User:Chris Key|C
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  • Blast injuries
    ...pectrum of '''blast injuries''' from the direct [[overpressure]] from an [[explosives|explosion]], the negative pressure following the blast wave, or effects of
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  • One-point safe criterion
    One of the means of achieving the criterion is the use of insensitive high explosives. Implosion systems are built of a large number of highly directional detona
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  • Firefighting
    ..., such as the transition to [[insensitive munition]]s and insensitive high explosives.
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  • Raid
    }}</ref> When the raiding force can access the key target, they often use explosives, manually placed so that a small amount can do maximum damage. ...s, such as bridges, historically could be attacked only by manually placed explosives. With the advent of precision-guided munitions, the destructive part of the
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  • Suicide attack
    ...military but often are civilian. Larger and deadlier attacks come when the explosives are in a vehicle (e.g., 1983 Beirut barracks bombings) or by boat (''USS Co
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  • Weapons of mass destruction
    ...g or the 9/11 attack. While these were horrible events, large conventional explosives or unusual mechanisms such as crashing airplanes are not within the classic ...by ionizing radiation from radioactive isotopes dispersed by conventional explosives or other means that do not involve nuclear fission or fusion at the point o
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  • Talk:Proximity fuze
    ...ues for manipulating the initiation and shock wave propagation of chemical explosives.
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  • World of Warcraft/Catalogs/Profession
    | Create guns, explosives, scopes, bullets, etc. Also allows the player to 'de-engineer' mechanical c
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  • Mark 8x series conventional bomb
    ...such as Tritonal are being replaced with PBXN-109 or other less sensitive explosives. ...proximity sensor is in the nose, and the actual electronics and detonating explosives of the fuze are in the tail.
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  • Explosively formed projectile
    ...es (EFP)''' are weapons of war that, before hitting their target, use high explosives to alter their shape or other characteristics (e.g., solid vs. liquid vs. g ...al-level manufacturing, or is something the author, correctly handling the explosives, could build in a home shop?
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  • Explosive ordnance disposal
    ...ns also may have the training and equipment to deal with potential or real explosives. The discipline is also highly relevant to humanitarian demining operations Especially with IEDs, but also with professionally placed explosives, there may be hidden mechanisms intended to trigger the device while it is
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  • Edward Teller/Bibliography
    * ''The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives'', Edward Teller, Wilson K. Talley, and Gary H. Higgins, McGraw Hill, NY, 1
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  • Mach effect
    When explosives detonate in air, and the altitude of the burst is sufficiently low that the
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  • Gunpowder/Bibliography
    ...roft, Wayne. ''Dangerous Energy: The Archaeology of Gunpowder and Military Explosives'' (2000) 222 pages
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  • Combat engineering vehicle
    ...other large pieces of equipment such as an earth auger drill for emplacing explosives, mines, or barrier structures.
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  • Gunpowder
    ...ssure shock wave called a [[detonation]]. However, it is possible for low explosives in a confined space to deflagrate very quickly and build up enough pressure ...l [[explosive power]], they have largely been replaced by more appropriate explosives. While smokeless powder may contain [[nitroglycerin]] or [[nitrocellulose]]
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  • CZ:Chemistry style guide
    == Explosives == ...with Chemistry input. I did put the following disclaimer on the approved explosives articles, and indeed did avoid certain details. Variants appear on related
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  • Gun control
    ...pon]]s or [[knife|knives]]) or dangerous and destructive substances (e.g., explosives, [[poison]]s). Distinctions are also made among guns clearly intended for
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  • Tort
    ...hese have been adjudicated to include the handling of wild animals, use of explosives, use of poisonous materials, and use of radiation. A related area of [[prod
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  • W88 (nuclear weapon)
    The W88 does not use insensitive high explosives, as it was decided that a fire, in a submerged submarine, was a far greater
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  • Talk:Federal Bureau of Investigation
    ...on and Customs Enforcement; Secret Service; Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; U.S. Marshals Service, etc., as truly national organizations. [[User:Howar
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  • Mine (land warfare)
    ...imple mines out of commercial and random military components and available explosives. Naval mines are sufficiently large and complex that they are designed by e While "insensitive high explosives", originally developed for the trigger mechanism of nuclear weapons, will f
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  • CZ:Approval Announcements
    {{Notice|Explosives|NAA}}
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  • Alfred Nobel
    ...r the bankruptcy of their family business, devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of [[nitroglycerin]] (disco ...im and the [[United Kingdom]]. From the manufacture of dynamite and other explosives, and from the exploitation of the [[Baky|Baku]] oil-fields, in the developm
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  • Phosphoric acid
    ...ble materials, [[cresol|cresols]], [[epoxide|epoxides]], [[ester|esters]], explosives, [[glycol|glycols]], [[ketone|ketones]], organic peroxides, [[organophospha
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  • Combat engineer
    ...efield involves building and breaching obstacles, land mines and demining, explosives and demolition, river crossing using mobile bridges, and related technical
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  • Presidential Decision Directive 39
    *Prevention of illegal traffic in weapons and explosives, protecting the President and designated officials, and controlling movemen
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  • George Kistiakowsky
    ...istry and reactions at Harvard University, was the leader of the chemical explosives team of the Manhattan Project and later served as Dwight D. Eisenhower|Pres ...ter the start of WWII, he headed the National Defense Research Committee's Explosives Division.
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  • W87 (nuclear weapon)
    ...ttom) is a tamper of some sort (gray), followed by precisely arranged high explosives (yellow), followed by a plutonium core (blue), filled with tritium gas (gre
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  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
    * Continue an academic program to investigate active interrogation and explosives detection.
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  • Nobel Peace Prize
    ...bequeathed by [[Alfred Nobel]], a pioneer in the development of industrial explosives. The prize, which is generally considered the most prestigious in the worl
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  • Fission device
    ...precise manner, by pressure waves created by the explosion of conventional explosives. There are two basic ways to do this: ...on systems used large number of explosive "lenses", formed of a mixture of explosives with fast and slow detonation velocity, each forming a shock wave that move
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  • User talk:Andrew Dasys
    ...ning engineering]], I should point out that we just approved an article on explosives. It might be a reference to which your article can point, or you may want t
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  • Earthquake
    ...''' earthquakes are caused by explosion of nuclear devices or other strong explosives.<ref>[http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/eq2.htm Southern California Education
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  • Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/February 3, 2010
    ==== How informative should CZ articles on explosives be? ==== ...pose-built fuse lighter). In the sixties, a lot of commercial and military explosives handbooks were freely available. They aren't any more.
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  • Military strategy
    ...he Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, the U.S. Army (Union) army to use large explosives with penetration Battle of the Crater in 1864, or British use of massed tan
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  • TNT equivalent
    ...energy]] commonly used to quantify the energy released (or "yielded") in [[Explosives|explosions]]. The ton (or tonne)<ref name=ton group=note/> of TNT equivalen
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  • USS Circe (AKA-25)
    ...uary 1945. Twenty days later she put to sea with Marine reinforcements and explosives for [[Guadalcanal]], and through February, ferried troops in the Guadalcana
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  • Bhangmeter
    ...haracteristic signature of a nuclear explosion. As opposed to conventional explosives, which have one primary flash that follows the detonation wave, there are t
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  • United States Northern Command
    ...in response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosives incidents outside its AOR (i.e., continental United States (CONUS), Alaska,
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  • Crush injury
    ...(10%), and trunk (9%). They typically are caused by building collapse from explosives, or [[earthquake]] and other natural disasters, or construction accidents.
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  • Talk:Haber process
    I see a list of uses of ammonia, but I miss explosives. This caused WW-I to last 4 years. Without the Haber-Bosch process Germany
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  • Sulfuric acid
    ...of zinc, tin or enamel. It is also used in lead sulfate batteries. Many explosives are manufactured using sulfuric acid.
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  • Mortar
    Given both the limitations of metallurgy and explosives, early mortars were enormous by today's standards of man-portable or truck-
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  • Haber process
    * Nitrate-containing explosives
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  • Talk:Naval guns/Research Notes
    :: Andrew Noble, "Artillery and Explosives: Essays and Lectures Written and Delivered at Various Times", John Murray, * pp. 517 - development of exploding shells, covering fuses, explosives, and effects
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  • USS Ottawa (AKA-101)
    ...rgo [[1 April]]. She departed on [[21 April]] for West Coast ports to load explosives and construction equipment, returning to Pearl Harbor [[23 May]].
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  • Cotton
    ...ing. It is also used in thousands of other products as diverse as tampons, explosives, and paper.
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  • Talk:Explosives/Draft
    ...rious additives. [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/explosives-compositions.htm] describes it simply as an explosive composition from Chin ...of these fields is in itself quite well developed and sophisticated, high explosives science is surprisingly primitive. The fluid-mechanical phenomenon of deton
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  • Mythbusters
    ...Even with their expertise, the team will bring in, for example, certified explosives experts.
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  • Permissive Action Link
    ...hysical precautions such as the one-point safe criterion, insensitive high explosives, weak link-strong link and enhanced nuclear detonation safety, and fire-re
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  • Thermite
    | date = September 1984 | title = Military Explosives}}, pp. 2-10 to 2-12</ref>
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  • V-2
    ...nge of 240 kilometers/150 miles. It could send 1,000 kilograms (1 ton) of explosives more than 240 kilometers (150 miles) down range in five minutes.
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  • Naval guns and gunnery/Bibliography
    * Noble, Andrew ''Artillery and Explosives: Essays and Lectures Written and Delivered at Various Times'', 1906 John Mu
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  • World War II, air war, Allied offensive counter-air campaign
    ...d by hundreds of fighters, flew 3,800 sorties dropping 10,000 tons of high explosives on the main German aircraft and
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  • B-29 Superfortress (bomber)
    ...gainst Japan. Previously, most raids were "precision" raids that used high explosives against industrial targets; thereafter, most raids were "area" raids that u
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  • Laser rangefinder
    ...wall, to knowing the precise position of a target to be hit with a ton of explosives.
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  • CZ:Sign-up page for Council members to review Citable Articles
    #[[Explosives/Citable Version]]
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  • Chemical weapon
    ...raction between the chemical agent and the metabolism of the victim. While explosives and incendiary|incendiaries are indeed chemical compounds, and may even be Apart from chemists who insisted that gas was far more humane than high explosives, the military did not want chemical warfare. Certainly with the agents avai
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  • Chemical terrorism
    ...tions are high. Recent suicide bombings in Iraq have combined conventional explosives with chlorine tanks; while this technique hasn't produced exceptionally hig those achieved with ordinary explosives in the attacks on the [[2004 Madrid bombings|2004 Madrid]] and
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  • Pentagon Building
    ...mand Center]] is on the second floor. Prior to the threat of vehicle-borne explosives, a commuter bus station was on ramps below the building; these have been cl
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  • Process Safety Management (United States)
    ...f flammable liquids and gases and to the process activity of manufacturing explosives and pyrotechnics.
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  • Talk:Coal mining
    ...The effects of new types of explosives such as dynamite, TNT, and plastic explosives; The changes in water management through the introduction of steam powered
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  • Fritz Haber
    ...en]]. [[Ammonia]] is an important feedstock for artificial fertilizers and explosives. In [[World War I]] Haber supported the use of chemical weapons and activ ...tor in prolonging the war, because the chemical route from ammonia to high explosives is a short one.
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  • Technical intelligence
    ...d shells, rockets, etc., to news teams, it was not coincidental that their explosives and boobytrap specialist, Jack McGeorge, was holding the item or was the cl ...trols to misleading value. On a battlefield, the enemy has ready access to explosives or weapons fire for destroying it, or very straightforward means such as dr
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  • Talk:Los Alamos National Laboratory
    ...sing plants, an eight megawatt research reactor and various laser and high explosives buildings. Until April 1984, Los Alamos had the capability to fabricate and
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  • Neutron
    ...help identify their content, such as nitrogen-rich compounds that might be explosives. Third, if fissionable materials are present, there will be a net increase
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  • Omar Bradley
    ...July 21, 1944. Cobra was a short, very intensive bombardment with lighter explosives before the American ground advance, so as not to create greater rubble and
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  • Petrochemicals
    ...stics, soaps, detergents, solvents, paints, drugs, fertilizer, pesticides, explosives, synthetic textile fibers and rubbers, flooring and insulating materials an
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  • Infantry
    ...nclude thrown and launched [[grenade]]s, portable [[guided missile]]s, and explosives, as well as helping carry ammunition for [[crew-served weapon]]s. Increasin
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  • March Definitions
    * [[Explosives/Definition]] * [[Insensitive high explosives/Definition]]
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  • Flash radiography
    ...y critical to the development of nuclear weapons and advanced conventional explosives.
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  • Fusion device
    ...ation. The fissioning pit, which generated the neutrons, was compressed by explosives, composed of low-Z (low atomic number) elements that are good neutron absor ...fission itself needed a high neutron density. For this reason, the pit and explosives were surrounded by a neutron reflector. Some neutrons would be reflected ba
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  • User talk:Richard Jensen
    == Explosives approved == Explosives has been approved! Congratulations on a job well done. --[[User:Chris Key|C
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  • Irish War of Independence
    ...rs" without authority from the Dail. Money came from America, and arms and explosives were smuggled in. Michael Collins had an effective spy network among the au ...in Ireland'' (1949). Barry argues that the lack of arms and expertise with explosives was a continuous problem with the effective waging of the war, with active
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  • Tactics
    ...perhaps made from an artillery shell, or a grenade, or a quantity of high explosives, whereas a land mine is manufactured for its specific purpose. A booby trap During World War II, scales in warehouses and factories were rigged with explosives. Allied soldiers securing an area would be tempted to step upon the scale t
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  • User talk:Milton Beychok/Archive 10
    == Explosives article == ...ing]] aspects, although specialized ones. Still, this article is about the explosives themselves, and to some extent their detonation systems, not about weapons,
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  • Detroit Steel
    ...it affords its occupant considerable protection from automatic weapons and explosives,<ref name=IronMan25/> though [[Grey Gargoyle|Mokk: Breaker of Faith]] was a
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  • March RA
    * [[Explosives/Related Articles]] * [[Insensitive high explosives/Related Articles]]
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  • Talk:Fire
    ::Might a cleanup here also deal with explosives, in that both physically share the property of an expanding wavefront of ch
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  • The Troubles (Ireland)/Timelines
    ...uncover 100 firearms, 100 home-made bombs, 250 [[Pounds (weight)|lbs]] of explosives and 21,000 rounds of ammunition
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  • March Metadata
    * [[Template:Explosives/Metadata]] * [[Template:Insensitive high explosives/Metadata]]
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  • Ammonia production
    * Manufacture of explosives
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  • Ammonia production/Citable Version
    * Manufacture of explosives
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  • Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/November 7, 2007
    ...|Yuval Langer]] is rocking back and forth on the porch while pondering how explosives are used in the construction of [[bomb|bombs]], but to no avail. Also, this ::It's also about CREATION of gas. Explosives are usually made of liquid or solid materials. When they explode they becom
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  • Chemical engineering/Citable Version
    ...icide]]s), [[detergent]]s (soap, shampoo, cleaning solutions), fragrances, explosives, widely used industrial chemicals (such as [[sulfuric acid]] and [[ammonia]
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  • Madrassa
    ...l to penetrate areas outside Pakistan, or mathematical skills to work with explosives such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 bombings of U.S. Emba
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  • U.S. Intelligence and terrorism from 2000
    On October 12, 2000 three suicide bombers detonated a skiff packed with explosives alongside the American Burke-class destroyer, the USS Cole, which was docke
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  • IG Farben building
    ...er]], and the production administration of [[magnesium]], lubricating oil, explosives, [[methanol]], and [[Zyklon B]], the lethal gas used in [[concentration cam ...], as well as the production administration of magnesium, lubricating oil, explosives, methanol, and [[Zyklon B]], the lethal gas used in concentration camps.<re
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  • War crime
    **Hague IV - Prohibiting Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons : July 29, 1899 **Declaration I - on the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons; July 29, 1899
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  • Chemical engineering
    ...icide]]s), [[detergent]]s (soap, shampoo, cleaning solutions), fragrances, explosives, widely used industrial chemicals (such as [[sulfuric acid]] and [[ammonia]
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  • Talk:Mentally healthy mind
    ...that was a paper book without the possibility of links. As you may see in explosives and some of its thicket ''sounds dangerous'', I have been making a point to
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  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
    ...m boilers to turbines), ordnance (with better fire directors, and new high explosives) and armor and emergence of new craft such as destroyers and submarines, Ma
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  • Kamikaze
    ...nd spare parts, led Japan to develop kamikaze tactics, with planes full of explosives, enough fuel for a one-way trip, and a pilot psychologically prepared to di
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  • User:David MacQuigg/Sandbox/Nuclear power reconsidered
    .... Finally, let's call S-3 the highest level of safety - no way, even using explosives, that terrorists could cause a leak. S-3 may be impossible to achieve. In t
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  • Talk:Oklahoma City bombing
    ...of commercial black powder. The police cleared the blast radius, and Army explosives ordnance disposal people came in to clear what wasn't terrorism at all &mda
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  • Safety and survivability of naval vessels
    ...osive ordnance disposal]] personnel to get to the endangered weapon. These explosives also are likelier to be in strong electromagnetic fields than on shore. Whe
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  • Antitrust
    ...possible violations with respect to fax machine paper, display materials, explosives, plumbing supplies, doors, [[aluminium]] extrusions, carpet, bread, and man
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  • Italian support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War
    *Elviemek, Hellenic Explosives and Ammunition Industry, Greece. License n. 9328 dated 17 May 1982. In the
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  • Military doctrine
    ...he Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, the U.S. Army (Union) army to use large explosives with penetration Battle of the Crater in 1864, or British use of massed tan
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  • Radiofrequency MASINT
    }}</ref>. Several open-literature techniques, requiring only conventional explosives, or, in the case of high power microwave, a large electrical power supply,
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  • Terrorism/Citable Version
    ...ch as fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) mixed with diesel fuel; these homemade explosives are called "Improvised Explosive Devices" (IEDs). <ref>[http://www.unodc.or
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  • Terrorism
    ...ch as fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) mixed with diesel fuel; these homemade explosives are called "Improvised Explosive Devices" (IEDs). <ref>[http://www.unodc.or
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  • U.S. policy towards Yemen
    ...a had "...trained.."Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab "... equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America." Obama promised h
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  • Bacillus subtilis
    ...re and agriculture. Furthermore, ''B. subtilis'' has been used to convert explosives into harmless compounds and to safely discard [[radionuclide wastes]]. ''B
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  • Strategic air warfare against Japan
    Japan's stocks of guns, shells, explosives, and other military supplies were thoroughly protected in dispersed or unde
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  • Logistics (military)
    | V: Ammunition and explosives
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  • Naval guns and gunnery
    ...ncreased in size and power, and steel armor was added to battleships. High explosives were invented and better powder. These innovations came about almost simult Gunpowder and other explosives have several roles in gunnery: the [[warhead]], the propelling charge, and
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  • Ear
    ...of the more common ones include blast injuries from firecrackers and other explosives, and mechanical trauma from placement of foreign bodies into the ear. The e
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  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    ...a U.S. Air Force [[KC-135 Stratotanker|KC-135]] aircraft. The conventional explosives in two of the bombs detonated upon impact with the ground, dispersing pluto
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  • Chemistry/Citable Version
    ...actical changes of substances, and make new compounds including [[drug]]s, explosives, [[cosmetic]]s and [[food]]s. Chemical synthesis of materials involves brin
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  • Organic chemistry
    ...portant constituents of many products ([[paint]]s, [[plastic]]s, [[food]], explosives, [[drug]]s, [[petrochemicals]], and many others) and of course (apart from
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  • World War I
    ...supervise the purchase of large quantities of food, cotton, machinery and explosives. Surprisingly, Germany, with its large, efficient, prestigious civil servic ...re heaviest about a third of the shells contained gas, and two-thirds high explosives or shrapnel. More subtle types of defenses were developed by both sides. At
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  • User talk:D. Matt Innis/Archive 4
    ...ween ideas YET, so I can do that. What do you think of [[User:Yuval Langer/Explosives]]? It's still <150 words according to my word counter. (man 1 wc) ...is where your head is." I spend a lot of time there! [[User:Yuval Langer/Explosives]] looks like a good start.. That is one of those articles that can go reall
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  • Pierre Molinier
    ...mber of this year, when his son Jacques died in an accident while handling explosives. As a consequence, he resumed his contacts with his daughter, Françoise.
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  • Chemistry
    ...e practical changes of substances, and make new compounds including drugs, explosives, cosmetics, and foods. Chemical synthesis of materials involves bringing to
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  • User:Howard C. Berkowitz/Sandbox4
    ...the Secretary to increase the number of teams by: (1) using TSA's National Explosives Detection Canine Team Training Center; (2) partnering with other government ...) reduce the vulnerability of passenger trains, stations, and equipment to explosives and hazardous substances; (2) test new emergency response and recovery tech
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  • Nuclear power reconsidered
    ...afety level S-3, the highest level of safety - that is, no way, even using explosives, that terrorists could cause a disaster. S-3 may be impossible to achieve.
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  • User talk:Thomas Wright Sulcer/sandbox
    }}</ref> Sites which detail the making of explosives can be tracked by authorities. As in many other areas, when authorities use ...experts have developed strategies to discover where terrorists might hide explosives.<ref name=tws17janBB6>{{cite news
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  • USS Titania (AKA-13)
    ...on Red Beach. ''Titania'' unloaded 575&nbsp;tons of cargo, including high explosives, and departed Balikpapan at 1930 the same day.
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  • Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
    ...d by hundreds of fighters, flew 3,800 sorties dropping 10,000 tons of high explosives on the main German aircraft and ball-bearing factories. The US suffered 2,
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  • U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities
    ...the threat, and mitigate its effects. " Note this includes conventional explosives as well as the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons commo ...ng availability of nuclear materials and technology which has made nuclear explosives accessible to developing states can also be expected sooner or later to bri
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  • Iraq War, Surge
    ...with or replacing HMMWVs; the Bradleys were met with very large bomb using explosives packed into sewers, or explosively formed projectiles. ...attacks required checkpoints to stop, even by predetonating, vehicle-borne explosives. "Gated community" walls would protect against infiltration. U.S. Marines a
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  • B-52 Superfortress
    ...ed enemy areas, each B-52 typically dropping 42,000 pounds of conventional explosives. They bombed from high altitude, out of sight and hearing, so the first war
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  • User:George Swan/rough work/Propublica table on Guantanamo detainees
    ...in March 2002. || The government accused Khalifh of providing training in explosives at al-Qaida military camps in Afghanistan, battling U.S. forces after Septe
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  • Nobel Prize
    Alfred Nobel became increasingly uneasy with the military use of the explosives which he had created in the course of his jobs; his discomfort increased ap
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  • Tokyo
    ...gainst Japan. Previously, most raids were "precision" raids that used high explosives against industrial targets; thereafter, most raids were "area" raids that u
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  • Nuclear attacks against Japan
    ...as devastating. working to perfection. The B-29 dropping conventional high explosives and incendiaries was the perfect instrument to destroy the infrastructure o
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  • Intelligence cycle security
    ...ht slow down, but certainly not stop, a determined entry attempt that used explosives.
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  • User:Howard C. Berkowitz
    ...ell that my mother did not know all of what was in my basement lab. No, no explosives, just pathogens -- I later did make some improvised things that went *bang*
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  • Edward Teller
    ...n unsuccessful federal government program to find peaceful uses for atomic explosives. In the 1970s, Teller remained a prominent government adviser on nuclear-w
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  • Future Combat Systems
    ...a hard metal "dart" to extreme velocities. Chemical energy warheads carry explosives, and have superior performance against area and unarmored targets.
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  • Talk:Chemistry/Draft
    ...e practical changes of substances, and make new compounds including drugs, explosives, cosmetics and foods. Chemical synthesis of materials involves bringing tog
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  • World War II, air war
    ...ies, 380 medium bombers and 550 fighter bombers dropped 4,000 tons of high explosives and napalm. Bradley was horrified when 77 planes bombed short: The ground b ...d by hundreds of fighters, flew 3,800 sorties dropping 10,000 tons of high explosives on the main German aircraft and
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  • World War II, air war, European Theater strategic operations
    ...56 raids dropped 53,000 bombs each containing 250 to 4,000 pounds of high explosives, plus 2.5 million 4-pound magnesium incendiary bombs. (The bombers also dro
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  • World War II, Homefront, U.S.
    ...things as rubber, tin, waste kitchen fats (the predominant raw material of explosives and many pharmaceuticals) paper, lumber, steel and many others. A popular
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  • German Resistance
    ...ich]] where Hitler had launched the [[Beer Hall Putsch]] in 1923. Stealing explosives from his workplace, Elser built a powerful time-bomb. For over a month, he ...g and sabotage, and the assassination of Gestapo and Nazi Party officials. Explosives were stolen with the objective of blowing up the Gestapo headquarters. Himm
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  • Single Integrated Operational Plan
    ...of the target area. As opposed to the general experience with conventional explosives, the overpressure caused by an explosion is not a simple inverse cube relat
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  • User talk:Howard C. Berkowitz/Archive 4
    ...t that seems strange? Certainly, in military engineering -- and indeed in explosives for civil engineering and the like -- the two are related. Fuse is an impro ...e substantive than general dictionaries? Trust me -- when one is handling explosives, one gets really, really compulsive about precise definitions. --[[User:How
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  • Clandestine cell system
    ...safehouses), information technology, communications, training, weapons and explosives, medical services, etc. Transportation alone is a huge function, including
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  • User:Howard C. Berkowitz/Editor
    *Explosives
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  • CZ:PD target articles
    * Insensitive high explosives * [[Thermobaric explosives]]
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  • Spanish Civil War
    On 26th April, the Germans dropped 100,000 pounds of explosives on [[Guernica]]. Over 1,000 civilians were killed in an action that shocked
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  • Luftwaffe
    ...d by hundreds of fighters, flew 3,800 sorties dropping 10,000 tons of high explosives on the main German aircraft and ball-bearing factories. The Luftwaffe made
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  • CZ:Suspect article list
    {{r|Plastic explosives}}
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  • User:Anthony Argyriou/WPbasicarticles1
    # Explosives
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  • CZ Talk:Usability
    ...as insoluble, given a skilled application of a sufficient quantity of high explosives. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 23:59, 1 November 2008 (U
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  • Dog/Citable Version
    ...red to as K-9 (canine) units, where dogs are trained to sniff out drugs or explosives, rescue trapped or lost people, or attack on command. These are often consi
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  • Talk:Iraq War/Archive 1
    ...Tomahawk and AGM-86 ALCM missiles that were delivering hundreds of tons of explosives to Iraqi destinations. Yes, that's technical. I'm certainly not going to st
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  • Dog
    ...red to as K-9 (canine) units, where dogs are trained to sniff out drugs or explosives, rescue trapped or lost people, or attack on command. These are often consi
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  • Destroyer
    ...gets. The first antisubmarine weapons were depth charges, or containers of explosives that would be dropped, from the surface, over the location of a suspected s
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  • American Expeditionary Force (World War I)
    ...flying at 14,000 feet (at 97 miles per hour) carrying 7,500 pounds of high explosives to Berlin. Aircraft production in the States fell far behind schedule. The
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  • Battle of Khe Sanh
    ...10:00, the fire ignited a large quantity of C-4 (explosive)|C-4 and other explosives, rocking the base with another series of detonations. PAVN forces, however,
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  • Talk:Cryptography/Archive 1
    ...nt, and then tighten it as approval approaches. For some articles, such as explosives and [[United States nuclear weapons]], there becomes a question of when to
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  • Talk:Terrorism/Draft
    ...t there has been increasing use, in U.S. prosecutions, of including "high explosives" in WMD terrorism indictments &mdash; and, while I hope I'm misreading it,
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  • Talk:9-11 Attack/Archive 1
    ...some barmy Islamists on British university campuses making some home-made explosives? Doesn't strain credulity nearly so much. –[[User:Tom Morris|Tom Morris]]
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  • Geophysical MASINT
    ...c pressure waves resulting from surface or atmospheric nuclear or chemical explosives. Explosions produce pressure waves that can be detected by measuring phase
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  • Talk:Osama bin Laden
    :Incidentally, do you know how to breach a wall, and the weight of explosives required to do so? I do. If that were on the H-60's -- which were probably
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  • User talk:Hayford Peirce/Archive 10
    ::::::::::I take your point. Avoid explosives. I'm getting close, though, to a blockquote format I like. Will try it out
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