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Article: Recent advances in explosives and solid propellants.
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- Chemistry and Industry
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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The end of the Cold War has brought to light a number of advances in the world of explosives - in the future they could well be safer and more efficient
The end of the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations has allowed nearly two decades worth of research on propellants and explosives to be made public. Fascinating and novel molecular structures have been synthesised, and a number of them are being developed as bulk commodities for the rocket propulsion and ordnance industries. Most of the work in this area was done in the US and the former USSR. In the US, the major programme for developing propellants and explosives (also called energetic materials) was ...