TATB/Definition

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A definition or brief description of TATB.

An insensitive high explosive (IHE) with the IUPAC name 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene and the trivial name triamino-trinitrobenzene; has been the principal IHE in recent U.S. nuclear weapons