So your contention is that the entire premise of the article is false, because black powder is not used to detonate the primary charges in the weapons listed?
Black Powder. Black powder is the oldest-known explosive and propellant. It is a composite of potassium or sodium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. Time fuses, some igniters, and some detonators contain black powder.
There are drawings of "time fuse" and "safety fuse" that show black powder in the core. These types of fuses are not commonly used since the advent of pneumatic "shock tubes" where the detonator is inserted into a hand initiator and fired a distance from the explosives.
Later in the manual it states that black powder is too sensitive to shock to be considered a viable military explosive. It is also rendered useless by water or moisture; and, seals do not offer long term protection against moisture. It is considered unreliable and hazardous.
Still later in the manual it shows the construction of various detonators. The ignition charge is lead styphnate and barium chromate, followed by a lead azide booster. It turns out that black powder will not detonate military explosives.
But, what does the military know? The press has proven again and again to be the ultimate truth.
There is an Estes plant in Colorado that makes black powder.
Most of the more recent primer formulations contain an initiator explosive compound called 'dinol', the chemical name of which is DDNP (diazodinitrophenol).
Other initiator explosives include:
dinitrodihydroxydiazobenzene salt (diazinate);
dinitrobenzofuroxan salts;
potassium dinitrobenzofuroxan;
various diazo, triazole, and tetrazaole compounds;
perchlorate or nitrate salts of metal complexes of ammonium, amine or hydrazine an example of which is 2-(5-cyanotetrazolato)pentaaminecobalt III perchlorate (CP).
Oxidizers include:
zinc oxide
potassium nitrate
strontium nitrate
zinc peroxide
Fuel components include:
amorphous boron
metal powders, such as aluminium, zirconium, titanium, nickel and zinc carbon
silicon
metal sulfides
So, yeah, my contention is that the "Danger, Will Robinson" level of excitement is plain crap.