ABSTRACT
Throughout this text the dangers and lethality of military ordnance are explained in a manner to preclude readers from minimizing or completely disregarding them. Due to the numerous possible hazards, each munition is considered to contain every possible threat until evidence allows each of them to be eliminated. Unfortunately, the evidence that allows evaluations and decisions to be made is often imprecise because variations in manufacturing techniques and materials used to construct military ordnance ensure that
nothing is absolute. The result is a lexicon laced with terms such as “usually,” “consistent with,” “more often than not,” or “as a rule of thumb,” followed immediately by “an exception to the rule” and, of course, “an exception to an exception.”
