News reports said Adair used about three hundred forty kilograms of nitroglycerine explosive material to pull the oxygen out of the fire.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

And it sank,too. The Confederacy also developed very effective underwater explosive devices for use in the harbors.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

What happened in New York a week ago has added to calls for new laws to deny gun and explosive purchases to suspected terrorists.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Officials say he bought materials to build explosive devices and traveled to New York City on September tenth as part of planning for an attack.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

One is "The Hurt Locker." It is a tense and exciting movie about American soldiers in Iraq whose job is to find and safely destroy hidden explosive devices.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Their job is to find and safely destroy hidden explosive devices.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Legislators on Capitol Hill are also looking at new laws to deny gun and explosive purchases to suspected terrorists.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

The Obama administration is considering an increase in troop levels to counter increased military casualties from improvised explosive devices.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The MRAP vehicle has its roots in the Iraq war. Improvised Explosive Devices wreaked havoc with the boxy, M-1151 Humvees.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

Mutallab,an engineering student who studied in Britain, told investigators he was acting on instructions from al-Qaida and got the explosive materials in Yemen.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

"Land is a major social and political issue,very explosive and very much inclined to provoke a lot of conflict in different parts of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Pyongyang pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and a nuclear explosive, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

Then in September, two explosive-laden vehicles penetrated the base of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia,known as AMISOM, resulting in the death of 17 peacekeepers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Authorities arrested a Pakistan-born U.S.citizen, Faisal Shahzad, two days after an explosive device inside a sports utility vehicle failed to detonate in Times Square on May 1.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

But the acquisition of radioactive material for a so-called 'dirty bomb,' which is radioactive material that is dispersed with a conventional explosive device, that is not that challenging.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

The issue of Kirkuk,of course, is a very explosive one, but I don't think it's going to explode,now because the Kurds are very dependent on the U.S.and Turkey.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Coalition forces say it is a stronghold for the Taliban, where they make many of the Improvised Explosive Devices that are a daily hazard for troops and local Afghans.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

In total nine people, including six Afghans,were held after explosive suicide vests, hand grenades and other weapons were discovered in the storeroom of the Emergency-run hospital in Helmand's capital,Lashkar Gah.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

"High profile attacks involving personnel- and vehicle-borne explosive devices continue.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

North Korea pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and nuclear explosive earlier in the year, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis. "As soon as there was a nexus to Boston in this investigation, we began to send additional information out to all of our patrol officers - information about IEDS, information about VBEDS, vehicle-borne explosive devices."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"We have faced an enemy who do not want to fight us force-on-force, rather they wanted to lay improvised explosive devices to halt us in our path and this summer total of 1,800 Improvised explosive devices laid in our path, so we have had to adapt quickly."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12