Sentence examples for if detonated from inspiring English sources

In combat operations, a warship can be subjected to air blast and underwater shock loading, which if detonated close to the ship can damage the vessel form a dished for hull plating or more serious holing of the hull.

That is a relatively tiny bomb by cold-war standards, though it could kill hundreds of thousands of people if detonated in the heart of a big city.

The police refused to provide any details about the devices, other than to say that they "had the potential to cause considerable physical injury if detonated".

Officers instead discovered a Jihadi John-style hunting knife and chemicals for a massive bomb which was days away from completion, including 10kg or urea nitrate, a highly explosive chemical that could have caused multiple fatalities if detonated, jurors heard.

With lawyerly precision, Bobbitt explores the classic conundrum of the "ticking bomb": a detainee very likely has knowledge of a concealed explosive device that, if detonated, will kill thousands.

The instructions said that, if detonated within two metres of a person, the grenade could damage the eardrums and cause light injuries, so Lea told the demonstrators to step back a bit.

Exploding eggs aren't all fun and games, however — if one detonated in your mouth, you might not be laughing.

Today, with the possibility of an exchange of nuclear weapons, the toll could be far greater: One recent study suggested that if North Korea detonated nuclear weapons over Tokyo and Seoul, deaths in those two cities alone could exceed two million.

The Global Times, a nationalist Chinese tabloid that sometimes reflects the thinking of the country's leadership, said on Monday in an editorial that "we should avoid resorting to rash and extreme means by imposing a full embargo on North Korea". A few months ago, the paper said an oil embargo was worth considering if North Korea detonated a sixth nuclear weapon, as it did on Sunday.

What would happen if North Korea detonated a hydrogen bomb at the same Punggye-ri subterranean test site?

If explosives detonated in the warehouse and damaged multiple containers, Hunt warns that it could have created a "toxic soup" of hazardous interactions and products.