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 ...

For decades, manufacturing plastic-bonded high explosives, or PBXs, has relied on legacy processes like slurry coating. In ...

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have modernized high-explosive (HE) manufacturing by adapting ...

College courses can prepare students for careers. One class at the Colorado School of Mines does that while also ensuring students have a blast. For Mines senior Michael Neuman, explosives engineering ...

To build better buildings, a Colorado State University engineer will first visualize them falling apart. Hussam Mahmoud is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assess exactly how ...

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Using thin films—no more than a few pieces of notebook paper thick—of a common explosive chemical, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories studied how small-scale explosions start and grow.

Safety is always a priority at the Joint Munitions Command due to the nature of munitions manufacturing. While this is a risky business, JMC is committed to keeping employees safe and preserving Army ...

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, Mitigating the worst impacts of climate change — or even reversing it — might demand different sorts of atmospheric vacuum cleaners. Like ...

FORT DRUM, New York – Fresh from duty assisting New York in tackling COVID-19, New York Army National Guard combat engineers hit the ranges to practice clearing the battlefield of any other obstacles ...