CL 20: China reports to significantly improve worlds most powerful explosive, Oneindia News

A Chinese research team has said that they have significantly improved the safety of the worlds most powerful CL20. . by engineering a fivefold boost to its shock resistance capacity. The breakthrough could speed up the largescale application of the explosive in battle, making Chinese weapons far superior in terms of destructive power. CL20 is the most deadly nonnuclear explosive in existence. When detonated, it can produce destructive shock waves with blast pressures many times higher than other common explosives like TNT and RDX. The mass production of CL20 is extremely difficult. China is the only country so far to possess such industrial capability and has used the explosive in some of its newest weapons. China had also tested CL20s equivalent back in 2011 and has since made the explosive in large quantities. , CL20china, CL20explosive, Chinanuclearweapon