Sentence examples for detonated successfully from inspiring English sources

The devices would apparently have been undetectable by conventional airport security checks, and intelligence sources say they would have detonated successfully.

In early 1984, a nuclear bomb assembled by Pakistan was detonated successfully at the Chinese test site of Lop Nor in Xinjiang.

While the improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated successfully, a gas can that was placed next to the bomb (presumably to increase the size of the explosion and cause the building to catch fire) was not ignited in the blast and caused no damage.

They conducted tests on a Boeing 787 and an Airbus 321, detonating and successfully containing bombs akin to the ones in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

Today, eight countries have successfully detonated nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea.

It was successfully detonated during Operation Ivy, on Nov. 1, 1952, at Enewetak.

North Korea is claiming it has successfully detonated a miniaturised hydrogen bomb.

He was on the command ship, the Estes, when it was successfully detonated on Nov. 1, 1952.

Following "artificial" seismic activity detected by South Korea, Japan and the US at around 11 57am Korean time (02 57 GMT), the North Korean regime confirmed it had successfully detonated a "miniaturised" nuclear device in an underground test.

On the morning of November 8, a two-stage device inside a Blue Danube case was successfully detonated at 2,200 metres (7,200 feet) over Christmas Island, with a yield calculated at 1.8 megatons.

Among the Indian scientists who successfully detonated five nuclear tests in the northwestern desert last week, none seemed more visibly delighted by the acclaim waiting in New Delhi than Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.