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Most military explosives don’t explode when set on fire most of them don’t even burn well or at all, they are nearly all exclusively shock detonated so the dist
by dogma1138 6y ago
Most military explosives don’t explode when set on fire most of them don’t even burn well or at all, they are nearly all exclusively shock detonated so the distance works it basically ensures that the shock from a single explosion can’t trigger a chain reaction.
I’m not sure if this would be the same with temperature sensitive explosives since once they reach their flash point things go boom.
- lostlogin 6y agoThere have been some pretty close calls. The link below is to a near miss with a nuclear bomb which had 3 of its 4 fail safe mechanisms fail. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash