Black and Smokeless Powders:

Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers

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Publication Year:1998

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Committee on Smokeless and Black Powder, National Research Council
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Some 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years. How can technology help protect the public from these homemade devices?

This book, a response to a Congressional mandate, focuses on ways to ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Executive Summary	1-13	(skim)
1 Background and Overview	14-37	(skim)
2 Detection of Black and Smokeless Powder Devices	38-55	(skim)
3 Identification	56-96	(skim)
Bibliography	97-100	(skim)
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	101-106	(skim)
Appendix B: Statement of Task and Enabling Legislation	107-111	(skim)
Appendix C: Committee Meetings	112-114	(skim)
Appendix D: Taggant and Marker Concepts	115-122	(skim)
Appendix E: Presentations by Stakeholder Groups	123-129	(skim)
Appendix F: Committee Site Visits	130-146	(skim)
Appendix G: Laboratories Capable of Testing	147-149	(skim)
Appendix H: Regulation of Black and Smokeless Powders	150-153	(skim)
Appendix I: Glossary	154-163	(skim)
Appendix J: Acronyms and Abbreviations	164-164	(skim)

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Some 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years. How can technology help protect the public from these homemade devices?

This book, a response to a Congressional mandate, focuses on ways to improve public safety by preventing bombings involving smokeless or black powders and apprehending the makers of the explosive devices. It examines technologies used for detection of explosive devices before they explode--including the possible addition of marking agents to the powders--and technologies used in criminal investigations for identification of these powders--including the possible addition of taggants to the powders--in the context of current technical capabilities.

The book offers general conclusions and recommendations about the detection of devices containing smokeless and black powders and the feasibility of identifying makers of the devices from recovered powder or residue. It also makes specific recommendations about marking and tagging technologies. This volume follows the work reported in Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings (NRC 1998), which studied similar issues for bombings that utilize high explosives.

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