Explosives and Detonators Security Sourcebook  

This recent 101-page publication provides detailed information on military, commercial and homemade explosives and detonators ("blasting caps") that is unavailable in any other single source.

The book is not a scientific or technical treatise on these products as that ground is already extensively covered in other publications. Rather, it is designed as a sourcebook of the many explosive types, which may form a part of the terrorist arsenal. It is intended for the information of security operatives.

There is little comprehensive and readily available information on the great variety of explosives and detonators manufactured today; but with this book as a reference it is possible to answer many questions that are so often asked, such as:

• What are explosives, their classification and effects?

• What do explosives look like?

• What do explosives smell like?

• What is a detonator?

• What are the different detonator styles and designs from various countries?

• How are different commercial and military explosives wrapped and labeled?

• What are the sensitivities of explosives, especially homemade types?

• What are the trade names of different explosives and their origins?

• What are the meanings of various terms describing explosives?

• How are different detonators constructed internally?

• What are the detonation velocities of representative types of explosives?

• What are the chemical components, densities, gas volumes, explosive energy and relative strengths of various explosives?

• What are explosive trains?

These questions and more are answered in one volume that has information culled from many authoritative civilian and military textbooks and manuals, many of which are obscure and out-of-print and thus not available, except to dedicated researchers. The author of this book has done his research and now this information is available in one essential volume for your reference library.  

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