The Bottle in Your Medicine Cabinet That Runs Rockets — The History of High-Test Peroxide

The Element That Burns Water, Glass, and Metal — The History of Fluorine

The Gas You Breathe Becomes an Explosive at -183°C — The History of Liquid Oxygen

The Explosive That Detonates From Nothing — The History of Azidoazide Azide

The Chemical That Sets Ice on Fire — The History of Dioxygen Difluoride (FOOF)

Why Is the Strongest Acid Stored in Plastic? — The History of Fluoroantimonic Acid

The Element at the Core of Every Nuclear Bomb Ever Built — The History of Plutonium

The Metal That Explodes When It Touches Water — The History of Rubidium

The Radioactive Element That Hides Inside Your Bones — The History of Strontium-90

The Nuclear Fuel We Were Too Afraid to Use — The History of Thorium

The Element They Put in Everything Until It Started Killing People — The History of Radium

The Poison That Kills Through a Door Handle — The History of Novichok

The Poison So Perfect It Went Undetected for Centuries — The History of Arsenic

The Liquid That Lights Water on Fire — The History of Chlorine Trifluoride

The Deadliest Substance on Earth, And We Inject It Into Our Faces — Botulinum Toxin

The Herbicide That Poisoned Its Own Soldiers — The History of Agent Orange

One Drop on Your Skin and You're Dead — The History of VX

The Gas That Made Every Soldier on Earth Carry a Mask — The History of Mustard Gas

The Poison With No Antidote — The History of Ricin

The Acid That Eats Through Glass — The History of Hydrofluoric Acid

The Poison 500x More Deadly Than Cyanide — The History of Sarin

The Radioactive Waste the Military Turns Into Bullets — The History of Depleted Uranium

The Element That Explodes If It Touches Anything — The History of Francium

The Deadliest Dust on Earth — The History of Beryllium

The Element That Makes Nuclear Bombs 1000x More Powerful — The History of Tritium

The Glowing Blue Powder That Killed Everyone Who Touched It — Cesium-137

The Metal That Kills You Without Touching It — Cobalt-60

The Explosive That Replaced TNT — The History of RDX

The Weapon Made From Gasoline and Soap — The History of Napalm

The Explosive That Made Nitroglycerin Safe to Carry — The History of Dynamite

The Explosive You Can Hold in a Fire — The History of C-4

The Fire That Burned on Water — The History of Greek Fire

The Element That Put Fire in Every Pocket — The History of White Phosphorus

The Fastest Poison We Ever Made — The History of Cyanide

Why Can't You Put Out Thermite? — The History of Thermite