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Insensitive munitions are munitions that are designed to withstand stimuli representative of severe but credible accidents. The current range of stimuli are shock (from bullets, fragments and shaped charge jets), heat (from fires or adjacent thermal events) and adjacent detonating munitions.
In explosives engineering, sensitivity refers to the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat, or friction. [1] Current in-use standard methods of mechanical (impact and friction) sensitivity determination differ by the sample preparation (constant mass or volume is usually used; pile or pressed pellet), sample arrangement (confined/unconfined sample etc), instrument type ...
The first report, "Use of Uranium for a Bomb", discussed the feasibility of creating a super-bomb from uranium, which they now thought to be real. The second, "Use of Uranium as a Source of Power" discussed the idea of using uranium as a source of power, not just a bomb.
For example, a large bomb casing was filled with small sticks of incendiary ; the casing was designed to open at altitude, scattering the bomblets in order to cover a wide area. An explosive charge would then ignite the incendiary material, often starting a raging fire.
In the United States military's strategic nuclear weapon nuclear command and control (NC2) system, an Emergency Action Message (EAM) is a preformatted message that directs nuclear-capable forces [1] to execute specific Major Attack Options (MAOs) or Limited Attack Options (LAOs) in a nuclear war.
An example of a low-explosive train is a rifle cartridge, which consists of a primer consisting of a small amount of primary high explosive which initiates the explosive train; an igniter which is initiated by the primer and creates a flame that ignites the propellant
The Star Tribune was unable to reach representatives of Cook County Pride, which organizes the annual Pride event in Grand Marais and conducts educational outreach, social events and advocacy for ...
Ammonal's ease of detonation depends on fuel and oxidizer ratios, 95:5 ammonium nitrate and aluminium being fairly sensitive, however not very oxygen balanced. Even copper metal traces are known to sensitize bulk amounts of ammonium nitrate and further increase danger of spontaneous detonation during a fire, most likely due to the formation of ...