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Parent topics
- Insensitive high explosives [r]: Explosives, principally for military use, which have an extremely low probability of detonating accidentally or other than as intended in a specific application; not easily converted to improvised explosive devices, will not detonate when engulfed in fire, and, when used in the high explosive initator of a nuclear weapon, unable to trigger fission unless precisely triggered [e]
Subtopics
Applications
- Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
Feedstocks
- UDMH [r]: Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine, a hypergolic liquid rocket propellant in large surplus from the Cold War, still used in rocketry but also being converted into TATB, a member of the class of insensitive high explosives [e]
- Explosive D [r]: High explosives based on ammonium picrate; before the development of advanced insensitive high explosives, the military explosive least sensitive to shock and friction and thus used in armor-piercing munitions [e]