Sentence examples for detonation- from inspiring English sources

Female suicide bombers believed to be acting for the group launched a series of attacks in markets, while another detonation was reported at a bus station.

The North Korean leader's previous attention-grabber was the detonation of a nuclear "device", possibly a small bomb, in October 2006.Ironically, it was that blast which at last got China to lean hard on Mr Kim.

In February it tested a nuclear device, North Korea's third and most successful detonation.

This feat means triggering the detonation about two milliseconds after the bomb hits the ceiling above the doomed storey.

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.

Shortly after the bomb exploded, a photographer from New York city's police department snapped a shot of ground zero, the spot of the bomb's detonation.

For those whose aim is maximum destruction, not just maximum publicity, it is the natural choice.This special deadliness is partly the result of the suicide bomber's ability to adapt the place and time of his detonation to the last minute.

The defendant's lawyers had pleaded in vain for a reduced term on the grounds that the detonation hurt nobody apart from their client.

It is now possible to conceive of a world in which new bacteria (and eventually, new animals and plants) are designed on a computer and then grown to order.That ability would prove mankind's mastery over nature in a way more profound than even the detonation of the first atomic bomb.

A detonation in space would generate a powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which could knock out electrical circuits and power grids across a continent.

The detonation of the parliamentary expenses scandal still reverberates.