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Suggested Citation:"Appendix O." National Research Council. 1998. Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5966.
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O Acronyms and Abbreviations


AN

Ammonium nitrate

ANFO

Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil

ATF

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Bureau of


C-4

Explosive mixture of RDX and a plasticizer

CAN

Calcium ammonium nitrate

CDTA

Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act

CMA

Chemical Manufacturers Association

CWC

Chemical Weapons Convention


DDNP

Diazodinitrophenol

DEA

Drug Enforcement Agency

DMNB

2,3-Dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane

DNT

Dinitrotoluene


EGDN

Ethylene glycol dinitrate


FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation


HMX

1,3,5,7-Tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetraazacyclooctane


ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

IMS

Ion mobility spectrometry

Suggested Citation:"Appendix O." National Research Council. 1998. Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5966.
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3M

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (Company)


MNT

Mononitrotoluene


NC

Nitrocellulose

NG

Nitroglycerine

NQ

Nitroguanidine


ODNC

1-Oxa-3,5-dinitro-3,5-triazacyclohexane

OTA

Office of Technology Assessment


PEL

Permissible exposure limit

PETN

Pentaerythritol tetranitrate

PMT

Photomultiplier tube


RDX

1,3,5-Trinitro-1,3,5-triazacyclohexane


SRS

Scientific Research Service (Switzerland)


TATP

Triacetone triperoxide

TNT

2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene


USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

UV

Ultraviolet

Suggested Citation:"Appendix O." National Research Council. 1998. Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5966.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix O." National Research Council. 1998. Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5966.
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In response to the rising concern of the American public over illegal bombings, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms asked the National Research Council to examine possible mechanisms for reducing this threat. The committee examined four approaches to reducing the bombing threat: addition of detection markers to explosives for pre-blast detection, addition of identification taggants to explosives for post-blast identification of bombers, possible means to render common explosive materials inert, and placing controls on explosives and their precursors. The book makes several recommendations to reduce the number of criminal bombings in this country.

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