SwiftOnSecurityFeels like there used to be a lot more fiction storylines about old explosives that degraded and would detonate if you jostled them
Kevin Karhan 
@SwiftOnSecurity yeah because modern explosives are safer to store and handle than ever before...
Simon ZerafaMany modern high explosives are very insensitive, thankfully!
They make the implosion system of atomic weapons from such, so they don't explode inappropriatly when exposed to fire or impact.
This was not always the case and the number of times it very nearly went catastrophically wrong is too many 🫨
@simonzerafa @SwiftOnSecurity yes.
In fact all modern explosives these days need a primary charge to detonate to the point that C4 melts and burns like wax, which is good in terms of removing UXO…
Even in WWII stream extraction of unexploded bombs explosive content was a technique to render them safe 🙂
@simonzerafa @SwiftOnSecurity still being done to this day by Bomb Disposal Units in Germany...
- Cuz we have no shortage of UXOs here...
- To the point that any Earthworks company claims that you ain't digging out a cellar in Cologne if you don't stumble upon WW2 UXO, spent casings, bomb fragments and/or Roman coins...
There are many discovered in the UK thanks to the 1939 to 1945 slight disagreement.
One of the many reasons I dislike fascists is there previous attempts to murder my father's family in the 1940's by exploding HE in close proximity to their civilian dwelling places.
Thankfully they survived even when said dwellings didn't. Twice. 😕