[ChadGore]

From: http://www.ordnance.org/rdx.htm
RDX:
Also referred to as cyclonite, or hexogen, RDX is a white crystalline solid usually used in mixtures with other explosives, oils, or waxes; it is rarely used alone. It has a high degree of stability in storage and is considered the most powerful and brisant of the military high explosives.

RDX compositions are mixtures of RDX, other explosive ingredients, and desensitizers or plasticizers. Incorporated with other explosives or inert material at the manufacturing plants, RDX forms the base for the following common military explosives: Composition A, composition B, composition C, HBX, H-6 and Cyclotol.

[freeperfromnj]

Thanks. I just googled it myself and noted that many articles came up. I know the missile theory had been wideley discussed but I completely missed the RDX connection.

[NautiNurse]

What type of explosive was used by the shoe bomber?

[El Gato]

RDX forms the base for the following common military explosives:

Not to mention Semtex, the "explosive of choice" of terrorists, especially state sponsered or supported ones. But there is so much of it floating around from Soviet and former Soviet block sources( It comes originally from Czechoslavkia, which no longer exists) that the terrorists have little trouble procuring it.