IF YOU thought Dolly the cloned sheep had an ill-starred life, spare a thought for her fellow ruminant Shaboom. This hapless yet aptly named ram was fed recycled explosives as part of a project to find commercial uses for the many tonnes of explosives in the US that pass their “use-by date” every year.
Happily for Shaboom, who did not live up to his onomatopoeic name, it turned out the idea of feeding nitrogen-rich, gunpowder-derived supplements to livestock was not commercially viable. But recyclers have found a better use for their redundant explosives: in “stealth bullets”.
Gunpowder is a granulated…
