Word: rdx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first wartime breakthrough was the invention of RDX (research department explosives) which was much more effective than TNT. After three years of conventional explosives research. Kistiakowsky began his two years of research on the atomic bomb. Next, he said, "we finally understood how to control detonation of explosives as a precision instrument-using very high pressure very suddenly...