Explosives Technology & Pyrotechnics

The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Promet...

The first and only comprehensive illustrated history of dynamite in the United States. While everyone can mentally visualize a stick or bundle...

This book enriches the readers with the advances in rock blasting techniques for mining and civil construction rock excavation projects, including ...

Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest advances that have been made in recent years in developing d...

Advances in Terrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest drilling and excavation principles and processes for terrestrial ...

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives. It emphasizes basic chemical principles and practical, hands-on ...

This concise, easy-to-read book outlines the basic principles needed to understand the chemical mechanisms of explosion. Written for students with ...

The combustion properties of organic materials are used to assess their safety specifications. This knowledge is necessary to avoid potentially dis...

Propellants contain considerable chemical energy that can be used in rocket propulsion. Bringing together information on both the theoretical and p...

The International Explosives Conference (IEC) champions cutting-edge, deep-science research conducted internationally in the energetic materials se...

Combustion agents for solid fuel propellants and explosives have gained widespread interest in recent years. Their high gravimetric heat of combust...

Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Seco...

Ken Revis was training to be a structural engineer, and had almost qualified, when war broke out in September 1939. He promptly enlisted and, at th...