"detonation by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the act or process of setting off an explosion or explosive device. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as describing a military operation, a scientific experiment, or a terrorist attack. Example: The building was destroyed by a detonation by the enemy forces.
It may have been a controlled detonation by the police (it was reported that there was at least one).
AMONG the George W. Bush administration's not-finest hours, the detonation by North Korea of its first atomic device in October 2006 stands out.
It seems to have packed a small fraction of the power of the usual first detonation by an aspiring nuclear nation: a kiloton or less, according to the scientists.
"The Sum of All Fears," which imagines the detonation by terrorists of a nuclear bomb on American soil, couldn't have been better timed to coincide with the country's jittery mood.
It included a first-half humiliation; a halftime detonation by the coach; a 23-point fourth-quarter comeback; a tackle-eligible touchdown reception; two interceptions on the same drive by the same player; and overtime.
As part of their filing, prosecutors also released a video of a controlled detonation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force last June 29 of a bomb that was built to be "identical to Shahzad's bomb in all respects" — except that the task force bomb technicians ensured that their device would work.
Earlier this month, a federal health agency backed away from its earlier findings that decades of explosive detonations by the Navy on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques posed no health hazards to residents.
In both cases, the hot spots give rise to detonations by the gradient mechanism, in which a gradient in induction time leads to a supersonic spontaneous wave that later becomes a detonation.
The problem of the direct initiation of detonations by an energy source has been studied using both a one-step reaction model and a detailed chemistry for hydrogen-oxygen mixtures.
The Trinity bomb drop was the first of 1,149 nuclear detonations by the US government, 942 of which took place within the continental US.
"While it is impossible to calculate precisely the impact of Shahzad's bomb had it detonated," prosecutors wrote, "the controlled detonation conducted by the J.T.T.F.
