Former British explosives expert Chris Hunter weighs in on the deadly blasts at the Boston Marathon, commenting that both bombs “had white smoke and that's 100 percent indicative of a low explosive ..

Blast It All I've heard of high explosives, but is there such a thing as a low explosive? —C-W All too often, explosives enthusiasts fall prey to the bigger-is-better mentality. It's refreshing to see ...

In Christmas Day 2009, a 23-year-old Nigerian student named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253 in Nigeria with more than 80 grams of the plastic explosive ...

The explosive device that forced cops to evacuate an East Harlem police precinct on Wednesday afternoon was a crude device with “a low explosive powder impact,” officials said Thursday. The device was ...

If you’ve ever watched a cartoon where something blows up, you’ve probably seen a detonator — the device with a plunger that, when you push it, some dynamite blows up a bridge or a building or ...