Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives sends its National Response Team to investigate and along with the local bomb squad concludes that the cause of the blast was in a bomb. This is confirmed by metal fragments... 

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The federal government operates numerous specialized forensic science laboratories. The U.S. Department of Justice oversees the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), all of which have forensic science laboratories. These laboratories offer analytical services to local and state law enforcement agencies and conduct research to develop new analytical tools and technologies to advance forensic science. 

U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (1985). Eireamis and Explosives Tracing. Washington, DC Author. 

Refs 1) Fi Bowden A.D. Yoffe, Fast Reactions in Solids , Academic Press, NY (1958) 2) J. Roth, Evaluation of the Needs Benefits of the Explosives Tagging Program , Final Report for US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (March 1978) 3) E. Achter et al,... 

The U.5. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) estimates that fully 3-0 percent of the bomb explosions that occur in the United States each year involve inex-... 

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Bureau of (ATF), 1997. Arson and Explosives Incidents Report. Publication ATF P 3320.4 (4/97). Washington, D.C. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, 1995. 

A substantial amount of laboratory research involves materials considered, in the legal sense of the term, as explosives rather than simply chemicals which can explode under appropriate conditions. The term explosive in this relatively rrarrow sense is defined as any material determined to be within the scope of Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 40, Importation Manufacture, Distribution and Storage of Explosive Materials, and any material classified as an erqrlosive by the Department of Transportation in the Hazardous Material regulations (Title 49 CFR, Parts 100-199). A list of the materials that are within the scope of Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 40 is published periodically by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, U.S. Department of the Treasury. 

A list of basic explosive compounds is compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, and Firearms [125]. This list indicates the wide array of compounds that are available to create an explosion. However, the most common explosive compounds are listed in Table 20.11 along with their chemical and common names, chemical formula, MW, and common use. In addition to these explosive compounds, several previously unusual explosives are now being used more often in lEDs [125-127]. 

Explosive materials are listed alphabetically by their common names, followed by chemical names and synonyms in brackets. Although the list is comprehensive, it is not all inclusive. The fact that an explosive material may not be on the list does not mean that it is not within the coverage of the law if it otherwise meets the statutory definitions in Section 841 of Title 18, United States Code. This revised list supersedes the List of Explosive Materials dated September 14, 1999 (Notice No. 880, 64 FR 49840 correction notice of September 28, 1999, 64 FR 52378), which became effective on April 26, 2002. For further information, contact the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Firearms and Explosives Operations Branch, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20226 202-789-3027. 

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