Despite no longer being used in any military application , and despite its shock sensitivity , HMTD remains a common home-made explosive and has been used in a large number of suicide bombings and other attacks throughout the world . For example , it was one of the components in the explosives intended to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in the 2000 millennium attack plots and the 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings , as well as one of the components of the explosives attempted to be made by the neo-Nazi terrorist organization Atomwaffen Division in the United States
2016 New York and New Jersey bombings
2016 New York and New Jersey bombings
Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine