Bombs explode with tremendous force, but such force is rapidly spent.
A quart of ether (drained from cans of starter fluid) can explode with the force of five sticks of dynamite.
He was also born in the wrong place, in a Dublin packed with political differences that would explode with devastating force in the Easter rising of 1916.
A 2012 utility analysis found that the pipes can explode with the force of 20 to 200 pounds of dynamite and spew water at up to 90 mph.
A 50,000-pound business jet, like those of Gulfstream Aerospace, flying at 300 miles an hour, would explode with the force of 141 tons of TNT.
These, when dropped from very low altitude over water, would skim along the surface, skipping torpedo nets until they sank in front of their target – in this case, three dams along the Ruhr in Germany – and explode with devastating force.
The laser-guided Hellfire missile and GPS-guided Small Diameter Bomb land within a few feet of their targets and explode with the force of a mere 30 to 100 pounds of TNT.
Four knowledgeable critics, three former scientists and one current one at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which designed the W-76, have recently argued that the weapon is highly unreliable and, if not a complete dud, likely to explode with a force so reduced as to compromise its effectiveness.
US safety authorities are demanding that a recall of airbags which can explode with dangerous force be expanded to the whole country.
But it only takes one asteroid, 100 or so meters across, impacting the Earth to explode with the force of a dozen nuclear weapons.
It only takes one asteroid, 100 or so meters across, impacting the Earth to explode with the force of a dozen nuclear weapons.
