An improvised explosive device (IED) detonation left him without both legs and with a severely damaged pelvis and abdomen.
The device's detonation before the player reaches a minimum safe distance results in a pyrrhic victory.
In these devices, the detonation of a sphere of conventional explosives creates a blast wave that compresses a central ball of bomb fuel into a supercritical mass, starting the chain reaction that ends in a nuclear explosion.
The plutonium and uranium would be shipped to a complex at the Nevada Test Site, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, that was formerly used to assemble nuclear devices for detonation.
In the car were found a quantity of Semtex, detonators, and equipment for a radio detonation device, which, "O" told the coroner, led MI5 to the conclusion that the IRA might use a similar device for the planned attack in Gibraltar.
Blasting cap, also called Detonator, device that initiates the detonation of a charge of a high explosive by subjecting it to percussion by a shock wave.
This linguistic travesty is itself an act of terror, conflating the explosion of an improvised, home-made device with the detonation of a nuclear warhead a Strangeloveian extreme of the Gulliver effect, wherein acts of violence are measured according to which populations they happen to, rather than levels of actual physical destruction.
The surgeon thought it might be "some kind of detonation device" and summoned a nearby police officer, Duggan said.
(Patented by William F. Ketchum, they resembled darts and were designed to explode when the detonation device in the nose struck the ground. They were inefficient and ineffective).
At that time, near the first bomb, the tech safely disposed of a second, bigger package, a brown paper bag with eight sticks of dynamite and a remote-controlled detonation device.
