One of the most appalling tropes of action films, whether "Furious 7" or "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," is destruction-as-backdrop, with bystanders scattered indifferently or killed off-screen as cars skid, explosions explode, and buildings crumble.
"At 4am we heard an explosion; Isis had exploded a bomb at the main checkpoint.
I saw the explosion; the man who exploded himself changed to pieces.
He died of injuries received when the Delft powder magazine exploded; the same explosion is thought to have destroyed many of his paintings.
"After this, we heard an explosion and the main gate exploded.
By the time the Semipalatinsk site was closed, there had been nearly 460 explosions, including 116 nuclear bombs exploded above ground.
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"I have never seen such ignorance about nuclear energy in my entire life," Tolga Yarman, a nuclear scientist and professor at Okan University in Istanbul, wrote in an e-mail, adding that the government was "making it sound like nuclear explosions are chestnuts exploding on the heater".
His photorealistic drawings often capture the "moment before orgasm," flowers before they bloom, waves before they crash, explosions before they explode.
