Consolidated Nuclear Security recently completed “topping out” the High Explosives Science and Engineering (HESE) facility at Pantex. Topping out was achieved as the construction crew placed the final ...

Training of dogs to recognise explosives could be quicker and more effective following research by animal behaviour experts. Training of dogs to recognise explosives could be quicker and more ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate may have a better solution to detecting just what's in that suspicious package. For anyone who has spent a significant ...

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 ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., October 28, 2020 -- In a large, statistically significant, one-of-a-kind study, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have confirmed that the explosive called PETN ...

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BROWNSVILLE, Minn. – On a recent afternoon in this small river town, a caravan of federal agents veered off the main drag, down a dirt road that leads into a valley of brown fields and farmland. They ...