Yup, all those chemicals are rocket fuels, oxidizers, binders, etc. That is, except for the HMX, which is an extremely brissive high explosive that's used to implode the plutonium core to create critical mass in a nuke. (That's strange, what the heck were they doing with that stuff?)
It's the so-called "pharmaceutical chemicals and pesticides" and what I've heard about them, that would have me concerned. If you still have contact with your chemist friend, you might try this; ask him about the security clearances required at those other projects. If they very high (top secret + EBI), then that would tend to confirm what I've heard about them. Avoid the temptation to ask him straight out about what you really want to know.
--Boot Hill
Hmmm...I think I may have just answered my own question about why Aerojet was fooling around with that HMX. I did a Google on "Lawrence Livermore" + "Aerojet" + "nuclear weapons" and got 164 hits! Didn't go any farther than that because of the late hour, but that sure peaks my curiosity!
--Boot Hill
Unfortunately he has passed on. He was a Vice President out there. He was one of the German scientists that we brought over after the war. He was 93 when he passed. Great man. One of my heros.