When Picramide, which is easily produced from Explosive D, is reacted with TMHI it is aminated to TATB . Thus, materials that would have had to have been destroyed when no longer needed are converted into a high value explosive.
Dunnite can be used as a precursor to the highly stable explosive TATB ( 1, 3, 5-triamino-2, 4, 6-trinitrobenzene ), by first dehydrating it to form picramide ( attaching the ammonia as an amine group instead of an ion ) and then further aminating it.