High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) is a lab of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). Situated in Pune, its primary capacity is the innovative work of advances and items in the territory of High Energy Materials and Explosive materials. HEMRL is sorted out under the Armaments Directorate of DRDO.

The DRDO is building up a capable dangerous, - the CL-20, that can significantly decrease the weight and size of the warhead while pressing a great deal more punch. Truth be told, the RDX is not the standard touchy being used with the Indian Armed Forces; the warheads are for the most part pressed with HMX, FOX-7 or shapeless Boron.

Researchers at the Pune-based High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) have as of now integrated sufficient amount of CL-20 in the lab. It is the most capable non-atomic dangerous yet known not.

The compound, 'Indian CL-20' or ICL-20, was indigenously integrated in the HEMRL research facility utilizing reverse innovation, he included. The HEMRL has taken India to a world class club of nations with cutting edge capacities in the field of Energetic Materials.

n certainty, the CL-20 is such an interest for the HEMRL that an overwhelming size model of the compound possesses the pride of spot as one enters the entrances of the principle working of the DRDO's chief lab in Pune.

CL-20, so named after the China Lake office of the Naval Air Weapons Station in California, US, was initially combined by Dr. Arnold Nielson in 1987. CL-20, or Octa-Nitro-Cubane, is a Nitramine class of hazardous 15 times as effective as HMX, His/Her Majesty Explosive or High Melting Explosive or Octogen.