Tactical Missile Warheads

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1. GrosvenorFeb 2025
   These might help.

   Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Seventh Edition https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Strategic-Missile-Guidance-S...

   Tactical missile warheads https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Warheads-Progress-Astronauti...

   Fundamentals of Astrodynamics https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Second-Dov...

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2. philipkglassApr 2024
   If you're also curious about how guided missiles do their business after arriving at the target, I found this an interesting read:

   "Tactical Missile Warheads" by Joseph Carleone

   https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.470677

   It's available via Library Genesis if you don't want to make an interlibrary loan request.

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3. spitfireApr 2024
   These should help.

   Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Seventh Edition https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Strategic-Missile-Guidance-S...

   Tactical missile warheads https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Warheads-Progress-Astronauti...

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4. philipkglassMar 2019
   Yes. In fact you'll find the better ones on the shelves of technical libraries [1], both in the US and in other English-speaking countries.

   Introductory:

   The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives by Tenney L. Davis.

   Advanced:

   Chemistry and Technology of Explosives by Tadeusz Urbanski (English translation by M. Jurecki).

   Encyclopedic:

   Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items by Basil T. Federoff.

   Advanced applications of explosives, toward the destruction of materiel and human beings:

   Tactical Missile Warheads by Joseph Carleone.

   When I was an undergraduate I even found a book about nerve gas on the shelves -- Some aspects of the chemistry and toxic action of organic compounds containing phosphorus and fluorine by Bernard Charles Saunders. Dig into the citations and you find a further wealth of detail, papers now universally accessible through sci-hub.

   The main obstacle to making effective bombs isn't restrictions on information. It's that most people inclined to violence [2] can't or won't teach themselves something new even if given a wealth of high quality literature to do it with.

   [1] And on Amazon and Library Genesis.

   [2] Most non-violent people too have trouble with learning on their own. People who keep learning new things may overestimate how common that ability is in general.

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