Sentence examples for detonations off from inspiring English sources

After that, he sets the detonations off and we watch a small mushroom cloud of smoke and clay take shape.

ASCI Blue can barely simulate the primary detonation that sets off the main explosion in a hydrogen bomb.

I started linking it in to what had actually gone on previously at the three other locations where devices had gone off.. By the time I had left Force Headquarters, certainly I was aware that there were incidents, ongoing problems, as a result of detonations of bombs, so I had a really good idea of probably what was actually happening at those three locations.

Twenty years ago, in 1994, NRDC first challenged the Navy and Fisheries Service over five years of planned detonations of heavy explosives -- called "Ship Shock" -- in and around the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary off the southern California coast.

They set off controlled detonations that could be heard from across the street.

A new video shows each one of the nuclear detonations to be set off around the globe since 1945.

According to officials who have been briefed on the American reports, conventional explosions simulating a nuclear detonation have been set off at the testing site, which is near North Korea's main nuclear complex.

Officials did not release details about how they rendered the various devices safe, but law enforcement officials said that one method used was known as a "water shot," in which a robot placed a tube of water near a device and, after backing away, set off a detonation.

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If other mines are present, the detonation of one mine may set off a chain reaction of detonations.

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.