Sentence examples for the first detonation from inspiring English sources

The first manmade existential risk, said Bostrom, might have been the first detonation of the atomic bomb.

A dilemma has haunted nuclear strategy since the first detonation of an atomic bomb: How do you prevent a nuclear attack while preserving the ability to launch one?

By Eric Schlosser December 23, 2016 A dilemma has haunted nuclear strategy since the first detonation of an atomic bomb: How do you prevent a nuclear attack while preserving the ability to launch one?

The explosion in Reactor No. 2, a little after 6 a.m. on Tuesday, particularly alarmed Japanese officials and nuclear power experts around the world because it was the first detonation at the plant that appeared to occur inside one of the primary containment vessels.

He observed the first detonation of an atomic bomb on July 16 , 1945 near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and, though his initial reaction was euphoric, he later felt anxiety about the force he and his colleagues had helped unleash on the world.

It is no accident that C. J. Chivers opens "The Gun," his bold history of the AK-47, not with the loud crack that is the report of the rifle but with the monstrous bang of the first detonation of a Soviet nuclear bomb.

He witnessed the first detonations of the bomb in 1945 where he was responsible for the timing signals that triggered the weapon.

Throughout history, the first detonations of aspiring nuclear powers have tended to pack the destructive power of 10,000 to 60,000 tons — 10 to 60 kilotons — of conventional high explosives.

They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 , 1945

On July 25 , 1946 the United States Navy carried out the fifth detonation of an atomic bomb in history, in a lagoon at Bikini Atoll, in the South Pacific.

The second detonation sent thick black smoke rising up out of the vehicle, and crackling noises like firecrackers could be heard from a distance.