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Baxter Colin F. The Secret History Of RDX - The Super-Explosive That Helped Win World War II 2018 [pdf 215sc 204c. 9.52mb]During the early years of World War II, American ships crossing the Atlantic with oil and supplies were virtually defenseless against German U-boats. Bombs and torpedoes fitted with TNT barely made a dent in the tough steel plating that covered the hulls of Axis submarines and ships. Then, seemingly overnight, a top-secret, $100 million plant appeared near Kingsport, Tennessee, manufacturing a sugar-white substance called Research Department Explosive (code name RDX). Behind thirty-eight miles of fencing, thousands of men and women synthesized 23,000 tons of RDX each month. 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 production at Holston Ordnance Works in east Tennessee. He examines the debates between RDX advocates and their opponents and explores the use of the explosiv

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Author

Colin F. Baxter

Publisher

The University Press Of Kentucky

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813175317

Category

history

Subjects

Engineering, History, Military History

Rating

4 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14