Sentence examples for test detonations from inspiring English sources

The subject at hand was a big deal, namely debate in the Senate on whether to ratify the Limited Test Ban Treaty, or Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, basically barring all nuclear test detonations except those done underground.

It also raised its estimate for the Nevada Test Site, near Las Vegas, where the transuranics are the result of nuclear test detonations.

New designs required test detonations to make sure they worked properly.

In 1998, India abandoned decades of official ambiguity over its nuclear weapons program, exploding three nuclear devices in its first test detonations in over 23 years.

The researchers have even found a previously unknown plan of the building, showing the points at which test detonations were carried out on its roof to assess the effectiveness of the newly developed experimental multi-layer air raid shelter technology.

While the secret film corps ended their work in 1963 (when the test detonations moved underground) clips of some of the testing film are available for the public to see.

A test detonation would have been folly.

In a test, detonation of a similar bomb on a grounded aircraft blew a 2 feet by 2 feet in the fuselage -- a potentially catastrophic event aboard a pressurized plane in flight.

The first public indication that the administration was expanding the traditional view of nuclear deterrence came in a statement by President Bush in October 2006 that followed a test detonation of a nuclear device by North Korea.

North Korea probably has the fuel for several nuclear devices, according to United States intelligence estimates, but after the ambiguous result of its one test detonation, its nuclear status remains murky.

The manifesto describes in detail his purchase of chemicals, his sometimes ham-handed experiments making explosives and his first successful test detonation of a bomb in a remote location on June 13.