TY  - BOOK
AU  - BROWN G I
TI  - The big bang: a history of explosives
SN  - 0750918780 (hbk.):
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Stroud, UK
PB  - Sutton Publishing
KW  - EXPLOSIVES
KW  - MILITARY HISTORY
KW  - NUCLEAR WEAPONS
KW  - SOCIAL HISTORY
N2  - A comprehensive history of explosives, which covers their diverse uses, their social and historical impact and the lives of the people involved. The advent of gunpowder is followed by the development of dynamite, guncotton, gelignite, cordite, ballistite, TNT, RDX, PETN and ANFO and finally the development of the atomic bombs
ER  -