Computer simulations exploring the effects of shock waves on crystalline HMX, performed by Ryan Austin, a staff scientist in Engineering's Computational Engineering Division, and a team of LLNL ...

Three new explosives from three different labs have attractive properties such as simple syntheses and relative insensitivity, making some of them possible candidates to replace current military ...

To improve the damage performance of melt-cast explosives, one effective approach is to increase the proportion of solid-phase high-energy components. However, elevating the solid-phase content May ...

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A team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has shown that the structure of microscopic pores in high explosive materials can significantly impact performance and safety.

Borrowing a technology used to improve the effectiveness of drugs, scientists are reporting discovery of a new explosive more powerful than the current state-of-the-art explosive used by the military, ...

From outside, the High Explosives Applications Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) looks like just another office or laboratory building. Inside, however, some of the nation’s ...

The report that hundreds of tons of high explosives are missing from the Qaqaa munitions facility in Iraq has loomed over the last week of the presidential campaign, and led to a blur of charges and ...

This article was reported and written by James Glanz and William J. Broad BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 24 - The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that ...

Explosives have the uncanny ability to make even the most mundane objects exciting by simply turning them into smaller pieces. Lots of smaller pieces. Very quickly. When given the chance to pass this ...