The threat came in an email sent to several hundred people in the capitol Saturday evening, according to multiple published reports. The email warned of “highly lethal lead azide devices” around the ...

The Iowa Army Ammunition Plant in southeast Iowa will reopen on Monday, March 30, after having been closed down since March 12 to review and ensure safe storage of highly explosive lead azide. “The ...

Closed for more than two weeks in March because of concerns about stockpiles of highly explosive lead azide, the since-reopened Iowa Army Ammunition Plant in southeast Iowa now will store the material ...

MIDDLETOWN, Iowa (KCRG) - The Iowa Army Ammunition Plant in Middletown remains under a temporary pause initiated on March 12 to allow experts to continue a safety review for the safe removal of a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In August, six Harvard Medical School scientists were sickened after ...

You may have recently heard or even read about the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School's efforts to reduce lead exposure on its firing ranges at Fort Bragg, N.C. The command's ...

PREVIOUS work on the decomposition of alpha-lead azide have been performed at temperatures close to its ignition temperature 1,2. The assumption has been made that the products of such decompositions ...