In order to detect the content of a new kind of insensitive melting-cast explosive (DNAN), the system detected the THz characteristics wavelength of DNAN, and solved the content of DNAN by the Bill-Lambert law. Time coherent THz spectroscopy detection system was designed, in which the master system controlled stepper motor to get the micro-scanning of the photoelectric detector. The system parameters were calculated and derived for solving the content of DNAN, and THz characteristic spectrum of DNAN was obtained. Experiment used three methods to detect explosives samples with different content of DNAN, and the results show that the accuracy of this system is close to that of MINI-Z terahertz spectrometer currently broadly applied in THz spectroscopy detection equipment at home and abroad. On this basis, the optimization algorithm of characteristic absorption peak was designed, and by the origin software simulation analysis, it shows that the algorithm can further improve accuracy and stability of the detection system.