Detection and Disposal of Improvised Explosives

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4887-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch

Reihe: NATO Security through Science Series

The book contains lectures of an international NATO-Russian Advanced Research Workshop about Detection and Disposal of Improvised Explosives used by terrorists. The ARW was an event of a series of workshops before, dealing with detection of explosives by different analytical methods and different shape and compositions of the explosive charge. The formulation "Improvised Explosive", IE, is a new expression for terrorist explosives, which were produced mostly by knowledgeable laymen in a home-made manner. IE can be any chemical compound or mixture of commercial substances, capable for an explosive reaction after initiation by a detonative device. The disposal of such IE is connected with a special danger, because IE are in many cases much more unstable and mechanical sensitive than commercial or military explosives

Zielgruppe

Specialists dealing with terrorist actions from the point of research and development and practical knowledge. Physical Chemistry, Measurement Science, Instrumentation, Biophysics, NATO, Physics, Science, Security, Sub-Series B

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Sprengstofftechnologie, Pyrotechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik

Über Autor(innen)

Hiltmar Schubert, Fraunhofer-Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT), Pfinztal, Germany / Andrey Kuznetsov, V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute (KRI), St. Petersburg, Russia