Consolidated Nuclear Security recently completed “topping out” the High Explosives Science and Engineering (HESE) facility at Pantex. Topping out was achieved as the construction crew placed the final ...

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Explosives blow up things, but also save lives. Not long ago students in the advanced-explosive engineering class at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology went with the blow-up-things approach ...

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

The following list is a brief summary of literature that was reviewed in preparation for the workshop “Protecting People and Buildings from Bomb Damage,” held at the National Academy of Sciences in ...