Sentence examples for it has detonated from inspiring English sources

6 January North Korea says it has detonated a hydrogen bomb.

It has detonated three nuclear devices, with a fourth test expected soon; yet it cannot feed its people adequately.

The film, which shows the seven-year-old Queen unselfconsciously trying out a Nazi salute, is over 80 years old, yet it has detonated a storm of furious claim and counterclaim in a way no other kind of archive material ever could.

Since North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 2003, it has detonated nuclear explosive devices five times and made steady progress on its ballistic missile program.

The country conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test earlier this month, claiming it had detonated a hydrogen bomb designed to be carried on an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The country conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, claiming it had detonated a hydrogen bomb designed to be carried on an intercontinental ballistic missile.

If it had detonated, most of the state of Arkansas would have been wiped out.

Hamas said it had detonated the bomb in retaliation for Israel's killing last week of a top leader of the group.

"If it had detonated closer to the ground, it would have been worse," said Margaret Campbell-Brown, a member of a team of researchers at the University of Western Ontario who have analyzed the meteor's orbit and characteristics of the blast.

(At the time, North Korea — formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or D.P.R.K. — was still three years away from announcing that it had detonated a nuclear device).

As scientists and world leaders scrambled Tuesday to judge the importance of North Korea's claim that it had detonated a third nuclear bomb, the main thing that quickly became evident is how little is known about the country's increasingly advanced atomic and missile programs.