Sentence examples for successfully detonated from inspiring English sources

It was successfully detonated during Operation Ivy, on Nov. 1, 1952, at Enewetak.

North Korea is claiming it has successfully detonated a miniaturised hydrogen bomb.

He was on the command ship, the Estes, when it was successfully detonated on Nov. 1, 1952.

Today, eight countries have successfully detonated nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea.

But after the Soviets successfully detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, President Harry S. Truman ordered the creation of a hydrogen bomb project.

Following "artificial" seismic activity detected by South Korea, Japan and the US at around 11 57am Korean time (02 57 GMT), the North Korean regime confirmed it had successfully detonated a "miniaturised" nuclear device in an underground test.

And there is presumably still work to do before North Korea could successfully send out such a warhead on a functioning rocket, and have it successfully detonate.

Matthew Maury, a respected engineer and the former superintendent of the National Observatory, was not the first American to successfully detonate percussion mines.

But Tinguely's next two self-destroying machines, entitled "Study for an End of the World," performed more successfully, detonating themselves with considerable amounts of explosives.

"While we cannot exclude the possibility that terrorists could get hold of some nuclear material," he said, "it is highly unlikely they could use it to manufacture and successfully detonate a nuclear bomb".

On January 6, North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test, successfully detonating what it claimed to be a hydrogen bomb.