[slyall]

> And "shelf-stable and safe for many decades" is never a priority feature for high-volume wartime production of explosives.

The problem is that those minitions do get used many years later. Often because after a war ends there is a huge surplus of munitions you want to save till the next war.

Russia is using decade-old shells in Ukraine for instance.

The USS Forrestal fire was partially caused by 14 year old bombs that had been improperly stored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire