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The Pentagon’s arsenal and defense industrial base is built on materials that China can turn off like a light switch. Growing uncertainty in critical mineral markets and the open weaponization of ...

FOR centuries the only explosive known to the world was that mechanical mixture of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulphur called gunpowder. Chemical explosives may be said to date from the discovery of ...

A HUNDRED years ago there occurred a striking double even the consequences of which could scarcely have been foreseen, even by the most imaginative visionary of the time: Ascanio Sobrero, professor of ...

Call George Humphrey Tichenor a renaissance man, because that's exactly the kind of life he lived. Businessman, policymaker, photographer, a potential Louisiana candidate for the U.S. House of ...

Ukrainian forces successfully struck Russia’s Tambov Gunpowder Plant on June 11, the Ukrainian General Staff confirmed on Facebook. This is not the first time Tambov has been targeted; Ukraine also ...

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The massive fire at an Ayrshire chemical factory took place at a site with a long history of dealing with volatile substances. The Nobel Enterprises plant at Ardeer in Stevenston started life as an ...

Impending plans for the former Sunnyside Woollen Mill in Mount Pleasant are expected to liven up the area and bring more security. Nieve is the Canberra Times' education reporter, covering all levels ...

Germany's largest arms manufacturer Rheinmetall on Monday said it plans to take over a supplier specializing in nitrocellulose, a product used as a propellant in artillery ammunition and other ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rheinmetall has agreed to buy a Mittelstand producer of propellants for ammunition, as Germany’s largest ...