The threat came in an email sent to several hundred people in the capitol Saturday evening, according to multiple published reports. The email warned of “highly lethal lead azide devices” around the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two mechanisms have been proposed for the build-up of detonation by solid explosives: (a) In the self-heating mechanism, when heat is evolved ...

PREVIOUS work on the decomposition of alpha-lead azide have been performed at temperatures close to its ignition temperature 1,2. The assumption has been made that the products of such decompositions ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (March 21, 2014) -- One day, during a tough, live-fire training, an infantryman fires his mortar and the round is on target--an event which announces itself with flame and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Police conducted a search warrant Friday and removed more chemicals from an apartment in Streeterville where explosives were found Wednesday. Chopper7 HD was overhead 240 E. Illinois ...

You may have recently heard or even read about the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School's efforts to reduce lead exposure on its firing ranges at Fort Bragg, N.C. The command's ...

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