2018年5月6日 · RDX or ‘Research Department Explosive,’ also dubbed Torpex, was surprisingly stable yet twice as powerful as TNT. Eventually, it would be used to blast through the hulls of Hitler’s U-boats, blow gaping holes in enemy dams in the Ruhr Valley and knock out bridges, railroad tracks and power stations across Nazi-occupied Europe.

On December 7, 1941, with the surprise attack by Japanese carrier planes on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the United States’ policy of official neutrality toward Britain and its Allies was replaced by one of total victory over their common enemies.

2018年4月23日 · Twice as deadly as TNT, RDX was also ten times more expensive. In The Secret History of RDX, historian Colin F. Baxter tells the story of the people who developed, produced, and used RDX in the top-secret, $100 million factory near Kingsport, Tennessee, called the Holston Ordinance Works.

Taking a page from the plea of historian Paul Kennedy to examine World War II “history from the middle,” Baxter ofers a new perspective on the war by exploring the development and mass production of the world’s most powerful explosive then in existence, known as Research Department eXplosive or RDX.

Twice as deadly as TNT and overshadowed only by the atomic bomb, this ordnance proved to be pivotal in the Battle of the Atlantic and directly contributed to the Allied victory in WWII. In The Secret History of RDX, Colin F. Baxter documents the journey of the super-explosive from conceptualization at Woolwich Arsenal in England to mass ...

In “The Secret History of RDX: The Super-Explosive that Helped Win World War II,” Dr. Colin Baxter examines the development, production and use of Composition B produced at the massive East Tennessee facility. Baxter notes that in 1942, German submarines threatened the entire Allied war effort.

RDX, an initialism for Research Department Explosive,[1] is an explosive nitroamine widely used in military and industrial applications. It was developed as an explosive which was more powerful than TNT, and it saw wide use in World War II. RDX is …

Twice as deadly as TNT and overshadowed only by the atomic bomb, this ordnance proved to be pivotal in the Battle of the Atlantic and directly contributed to the Allied victory in WWII. In The Secret History of RDX, Colin F. Baxter documents the journey of the super-explosive from conceptualization at Woolwich Arsenal in England to mass ...

The history and development of RDX was a cooperative endeavour that entwined Allied scientific research, defence policies, resource allocation, industrial production, technological development