Sentence examples for detonation on from inspiring English sources

More than half a century before Sept. 11, 2001, Oppenheimer foresaw the threat of terrorists' possessing nuclear bombs and hiding them for detonation on American shores.

Toward the end of "Half-Life" there's a shot Mr. Klett took in Hiroshima of a wristwatch that stopped at the moment of detonation on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945.

Bobby Hebert is known as the Cajun Cannon, and he had just begun his postgame radio show Sunday night when he landed the latest detonation on the New Orleans Saints this season.

Roasted rib of venison with chestnut and quince was the winner, the ruby-red meat wonderfully tender and with a delayed, peppery detonation on the tongue that made up for the marginal ­over-reduction of the gamey sauce.

Pyongyang's second successful launch of a satellite, coming so soon after its fourth nuclear detonation on 6 January, threatens to set the tone for relations around the region for the coming year.

In the immediate aftermath of the blast on Thursday that killed 17 sailors, 10 of whose bodies remained unrecovered this evening, Mr. Saleh had angered Washington by saying he considered the explosion to have been an "accident" set off by a detonation on board the guided-missile destroyer.

The knock-on detonation of warheads and fuel, they say, accounts for the massive explosion described by residents as an earthquake that shook Damascus over the weekend.

The paper considers the effect of hydraulic resistance on detonation of gaseous premixtures.

Assuming that Iran is only able to deliver five 15 Kt devices through Israeli defenses, detonations on three urban targets using four 15 Kt devices, and one strategic site in the Negev Nuclear Research Center are displayed.

2002 Bali Bombings, terrorist attack involving the detonation of three bombs on the Indonesian island of Bali on October 11 , 2002 that killed 202 people.

Once it was activated, Perimeter would order the launch of long-range missiles at the United States if it detected nuclear detonations on Soviet soil and Soviet leaders couldn't be reached.