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Kusong’s hidden nuclear complex: What satellite imagery reveals

Satellite imagery of two Kusong sites in North Pyongan province shows new construction and repairs linked to nuclear weapons ...
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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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Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions

Suggested Citation: "3 Review of Conventional Open Burning/Open Detonation Technologies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Alternatives for the Demilitarization of ...

Patch AM: Why a Syosset block was evacuated for a bomb-squad detonation

Coming up: Join local author and activist, Erica Settino, for a reading of her new chapbook, The Life Forest. on the Syosset ...
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Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors

The characteristics of primary and secondary explosives are exploited in the design of the "explosive train." Briefly, the explosive train is an arrangement consisting of (1) a small quantity of ...