Investigating both the benefits and dark side of nanotechnology

What Is A Nano Bomb?

Can you benefit from the life-saving uses of nanotechnology?

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Introducing the most powerful explosive detection system in history

Imagine a piece of metal 30,000 times thinner than one of your hairs. This microscopic filament, mixed with a small protein of bee venom, becomes the most powerful explosive detection system in history, capable of detecting a single molecule of hazardous chemicals. By design, a series of explosives (lenses) surrounds a solid sphere of plutonium-239. [Sources: 5, 11]

The application of the sol-gel method developed by Randall Simpson, Alexander Gash, and others at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory can be used to create true mixtures of nanostructured composite high-energy materials. PTFE or another fluoropolymer can be used as the binder of the composition. [Sources: 7]

Nanoscale military applications research began in the 1990s

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