Sandia National Laboratories researchers use a blast tube to demonstrate how well nuclear weapons could survive the shock wave of a blast from an enemy weapon and to help validate the computer ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- You can learn a lot from a blast tube. You can learn more when you couple blast experiments with computer modeling. Sandia National Laboratories researchers are using a blast tube ...

Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated that, despite significant advancements in protection from ballistics and blunt impacts, modern military helmets are no better at protecting ...

We went to the New Mexico desert to blow up a car. It was an ugly car--a white 1970s Cadillac, rescued from the junkyard. In the trunk, 300 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, the same lethal ...