All My Sons, the story of a war hero who comes home to find that his father is a munitions racketeer, reflected the disillusion of postwar America.
TNT is a munitions compound which is released to the environment as a result of military training activities and manufacturing processes [ 6, 7].
Instead, he charges, the bureaucracy has taken the "safe and easy" option and declared everything to be a munition until proven otherwise.
If people asked, they would be told it was a munitions depot, nothing more.
Long before the current American units arrived in-country, of course, Afghanistan was a munitions magnet.
It appeared to be a munitions dump that had been attacked.
The centrifuges rarely stop at the Capenhurst plant, which sprawls over about 170 acres in what has long been a munitions testing site surrounded by cow pastures and farm ponds.
Her grandmother was a munitions worker during the second world war and then worked in a sheet glass factory – experiences that Riseborough drew on for her role in Made in Dagenham.
What very few people knew was that the Mont-Blanc was a munitions ship carrying TNT, picric acid, benzol and guncotton.
He's a munitions man but there's also more than a hint of the archeologist about him.
