''Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of research on explosives. It was established in 1976 by Hiltmar Schubert and was intended as a successor to ''Explosivstoffe'', a journal which had appeared between 1953 and 1975 but which had been published exclusively in German.H. Schubert, ''Ein Leben für die Explosivstoff-Forschung im Nachkriegsdeutschland'', Fraunhofer Institut für Chemische Technologie, Pfinztal, 2007 It has been the official journal of the

International Pyrotechnics Society The International Pyrotechnics Society (IPS) is the professional society for the field of pyrotechnics. The IPS was officially founded in May 1980. Introduction Apart from homogeneous Energetic Materials such as High Explosives and Propel ...

since 1982 and is published by

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. The types of papers published by the journal are full papers, communications, and reviews, and a section containing news,

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s, and conference reports. The

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are Peter Elsner () and Randall L. Simpson ( Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 1.887.

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