Dr. Colin Baxter

Published January 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM EST

The book cover for "The Secrety History of RDX" by Colin F. Baxter. The cover features a 2D bomb being dropped on a bullseye.

We visit with World War II historian Dr. Colin Baxter, Professor Emeritus of History at East Tennessee State University. He talks about the explosive RDX and its production in Kingsport, Tennessee, and Hawkins County, Tennessee, in the 1940s.

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