Apologies to Falconwolf of 911blogger I copy pasted the following post which I thought contains interesting info on the nano thermite topic. I haven't had time to review the info below but wanted to share it to everyone for analysis.

from: http://www.911blogger.com/node/21872

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Over at the BBC, I was participating in a discussion on one of their blogs (until it was shut down recently). http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/10/caught_up_in_a_conspiracy_...

On that blog another poster managed to dig up some information on nanothermite. (these are just some of the more recent posts on the topic, they were mentioned earlier as well)

From post #5512;

"- The existence of nanothermite production facility at US Navy's Indian Head facility (just outside of Washington)
- Cost and timing of these production facilities built in the 1990s
- Job adverts for these facilities
- Conferences before Sept 2001 where the versatility of nanothermite was discussed
- articles on the military "energetic" uses of nano-materials
- evidence that the only other known nanothermite production facility, the SNPE facility (located next to the AZF factory) (in France) blowing up 10 days after 9/11 - blowing out every window in Toulose! This explosion was blamed on a Muslim that had started worked at the facility just 5 days earlier."

and expanded upon at post #5518

"The edges of the subject area are all there:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/novel-energetic...

And as for US Navy's Indian Head

http://www.ih.navy.mil/Directorates/cao/emtc/index.asp

SNPE

http://www.snpe.com/en/index.asp

A discussion on the AZF / SNPE explosion and its links with Harrit's nanothermite paper (!) is provided here (with lots of links so you can check the facts).

http://www.911blogger.com/node/19963 "

and further at post #5541

"It was just one of thousands of links to nano-material research:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/novel-energetic...

Within it, it says:

"A major effort is also underway to develop a suite of codes for use in predicting the response of energetic materials in weapon systems subjected to thermal and mechanical insult. The objective is to reduce the number and cost of the current go/no-go insensitive munitions test protocols required to qualify a new system for military use and to improve our understanding of the physical mechanisms and safety margins.
A collaborative effort with the Navy was initiated to experimentally assess and validate codes for use in predicting the response of weapon systems including the violence of reaction in cookoff accidents. Quantitative data on cookoff violence have been generated by both the Navy in small-scale experiments and by DOE in the scaled thermal explosion experiments. Data on both HMX based explosives and PBX-109 have been obtained for use in establishing the accuracy and range of validity of the predictive models. The measured properties were used this year to successfully predict the time to explosion in cookoff tests performed by the Navy. In order to preserve and transition the energetic materials technology generated under this program, two explosives databases have been distributed to government laboratories and contractors. One database, HEAT1, contains over 3,000 chemical structures, and is a compilation of measured heats of formation for a wide range of organic molecules of interest to researchers in the weapons community. A second database is APEX, A Pure Explosives Database. This database contains over 500 energetic materials of different molecular structure to guide the synthesis of new materials and ensure the retention of important characterization data."

Therefore this paper supports the many statements we have made elsewhere about the "tailorability" of explosives to particular circumstances. There is evidence that the US military who invest billions of your tax dollars into "energetic" research each year, has capacities way above your and my, common knowledge of explosives. This is not fantasy on my part.

As I said earlier, every CD has a noise abatement strategy and WTC7 would be no different. There is plenty of opportunity to suppression explosive sounds too. The very spooky SANDIA organisation also published a paper on explosive noise suppression in August 2001. The document is getting increasing more difficult to track down. Hmm.

http://techlibpac.sandia.gov:8101/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1O55B827K9443.304&profile=pac&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100018~!173126~!1&ri=1&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=1osti_id=786634 "

and at #5542...

"Just a follow up on "cookoff violence". This is another way of saying the nature of the explosion. This is required for rocket fuels, for instance, where the rocket fuel needs to be used up smoothly and completely for maximum efficently. It is also require for munitions.

You are familiar with thermite which is used for cutting and doesn't explode or "runaway". Essentially, there is a ton of experiments to determine different compounds ability to release energy for either cutting, propelling (as in rocket fuel) or exploding. And the key to all this is nano-materials.

There are reams of studies such as this on the web...
"A potential method to mitigate cook-off violence of heavily confined explosives is to add a minor ingredient that reacts at temperatures below where cook off usually occurs, to burst the confinement and/or interfere with the thermal decomposition chemistry of the explosive so to slow subsequent reactions, This additive would not - impact the explosive's performance significantly, but only comes into play during relatively slow thermal heating..." "

or older post like at #4400

"If you want more than the one liners from wikipedia then try this:

http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=5956.php

"Military nanotechnology: high precision explosives through nanoscale structuring

.... Official sources keep quite mum though about military research into offensive nanotechnology applications. For instance, in the above-mentioned DoD report the words "explosive", "ammunition" or "bomb" don't appear even once. Does that mean the military is not researching nanotechnology applications for more effective ways of blowing stuff up, or are they just being tight-lipped about it? Your guess...
Of course there is plenty of potential for offensive military nanotechnology applications.
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Case in point of how nanotechnology could be used for offensive military applications can be found in recent studies exploring how high explosive materials can be prepared and manipulated. Engineering and control of energetic material (another, more innocent sounding term for 'explosives') properties at the nanoscale are of paramount importance when the ignition and detonation properties of high explosives are to be determined.
Last year for instance, researchers presented methods for making continuous high explosives thin films and arbitrary high explosives patterns at the nanoscale ("Patterning High Explosives at the Nanoscale").
Another, more recent example is a study by French scientists who report the first attempt to control the combustion and the detonation properties of a high explosive through its structure.
Writing in the journal Nanotechnology, researchers from the Laboratoire ISL/CNRS 'Nanomatériaux pour les Systèmes Sous Sollicitations Extrêmes' at the French–German Research Institute of Saint-Louis in France describe that they have prepared energetic nanocomposites with different formulations by infiltrating a porous chromium oxide matrix with a high explosive dissolved in acetone ("Preparation of explosive nanoparticles in a porous chromium(III) oxide matrix: a first attempt to control the reactivity of explosives"). The scientists claim that their method allows one to obtain and stabilize high explosive particles at the nanoscale.
The ISL scientists write that, until now, the only way to tune the explosive reactivity was to mix several chemicals in order to obtain a composition with the right properties. The idea reported in this paper – adjusting the reactive properties through the structure of the explosive – appears much neater.
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(Description of nano-explosion and photos)
...
This is the first time that a nano explosion (of course the authors describe this in more scientific terms as "the incidence of the decomposition of an explosive at the nanoscale") has been imaged in such detail.
Because the stabilization of high explosives by porous materials allows controlling their reactivity, practical applications of this research will make it possible to design energetic materials according to precise needs. The ISL scientists say that, for instance, the formulation of gun powders or propellants can be adjusted so as to avoid detonation and to define the combustion rate. Conversely, this process can be used to tune the detonation velocity of high explosives.

More bang for the buck, so to speak. "

It seems the leaders for nano-explosives are the french... and not the Navy Indian Head Division..."

and at 4057

"The 221st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society
held during April 2001 in San Diego featured a symposium on
Defense Applications of Nanomaterials.

Extract...

"Nanoenergetic composites and ingredients can be used in the ignition, propulsion, as well as the warhead part of the weapon. With regards to the latter application, nanoenergetics hold promise as useful ingredients
for the thermobaric (TBX) and TBX-like weapons, particularly due to their high degree of tailorability with regards to energy release and impulse management."

Impulse Management means that using nanothermite would reduce vibration and, more importantly, sound!"

and at 3553

"At wikipedia - not exactly the truther's friend - the article refers out to the US Navy Indian Head Division which is interested in "energetics" - the photo on their website shows you what they mean by energetics. Strangely enough they do not say what is in their explosives...

However, it surf the web enough you will find that they are looking for physicists and chemists to help them build more energetic material and you can find this:

http://www.asee.org/nrl/nswc-indian.cfm

"Postdoctoral Associates

The Indian Head Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, located in Charles County, Maryland 25 miles south of Washington, DC invites applications for postdoctoral positions for self motivated physicists and chemists in the field of energetic material research. The positions will be under the Research and Technology Department (Code R1) that houses 30 PhD scientists working on a broad range of topics related to synthesis and characterization of novel energetic materials, and ultrafast diagnostics of explosive processes. More details on the scope of work can be found at ... The postdoctoral positions require knowledge in any of the following: inorganic/organometallic synthesis with emphasis on nanoscale materials, molecular self-assembly, thermite and intermetallic systems, organic synthesis, fast combustion, ultrafast spectroscopy, shock and detonation physics, chemical and mechanical properties of explosives that affect sensitivity, and molecular dynamics modeling. Demonstrated expertise through journal publications, presentations or patents is essential. Experience with (in red)energetic materials is advantageous. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree in physics or chemistry and must meet requirements of a security clearance including U.S. citizenship."

QED: nano-thermite used in explosives and known about in Navy establishment just a few miles outside of the capital..."