Exploding Wires: Volume 2 Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon, Hel

General Papers.- Factors Affecting the Time to Burst in Exploding Wires.- Recent Contributions to the Macroscopic Analysis of Conducting Electromechanical Solids.- A Hydrodynamic Explanation for the Anomalous Resistance of Exploding Wires.- Lower-Upper Bounds of Temperatures for Wires Exploded in a Vacuum.- The Electrical and Optical Properties of Rapidly Exploded Wires.- About Distances in the "Characteristic Pattern" of Exploding Wires.- Exploding Wires as a Source of X Rays.- Calorimetric Calibration of the Electrical Energy Measurement in an Exploding Wire Experiment.- Effects of Transmission Lines in Applications of Exploding Wires.- Shock Waves.- Microwave Doppler Measurements of the Ionization Front in Cylindrical Shock Waves from Exploding Wires.- Electrical Generation of Imploding Shock Waves.- Blast Waves Produced by Exploding Wires.- Exploding-Wire-Driven Shock Waves.- Shock Waves from Exploding Wires at Low Ambient Densities.- Applications.- The Use of Exploding Wires in the Study of Small-Scale Underwater Explosions.- Studies of Metal-Water Reactions by the Exploding Wire Technique.- Pressure Environments Created by Wires Exploded in Water.- An Exploding Wire Hypervelocity Projector.- Exploding Foils.- High-Speed Cinemicrographic Studies of Electrically Exploded Metal Films.- Exploding Foils-The Production of Plane Shock Waves and the Acceleration of Thin Plates.- Acceleration of Thin Plates by Exploding Foil Techniques.- Aerosols from Exploding Wires.- Author Index for Volumes 1 and 2.- Subject Index for Volumes 1 and 2.