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Steve Coll has more on that story; Nick Paumgarten, by coincidence, also has a Talk of the Town story in this week's issue (it went to press Friday night) in which he asks a disaster-preparedness expert what to do if a much larger bomb — say, a ten kiloton atomic one — was detonated on Wall Street.

Witnesses gave conflicting accounts of the moment the airport bomb was detonated on Monday.

A fourth was detonated on the top deck of a No 30 bus at Tavistock Square almost an hour later.

A Layer Cake model, small and light enough to be deliverable by airplane, was detonated on Aug. 12, 1953, with a yield of 400 kilotons.

With general guidance provided by Kurchatov, Khariton oversaw the development and assembly of the first Soviet nuclear weapon, which was detonated on Aug. 29, 1949.

Finally, a more efficient two-stage nuclear configuration using radiation compression (analogous to the Teller-Ulam design) was detonated on Nov. 22, 1955.

Even so, the fear for one's own security has been detonated on a massive scale, not just by the movements of land and sea, but also by the invisible threat of radioactivity, its ultimate consequences still uncertain.

An unprecedented crime 10 backpacks filled with explosives were detonated on four commuter trains.

As the robbery was in progress, car bombs were detonated on the roads approaching the museum, in an effort to divert police attention elsewhere.

Or at least, what purported to be the truth: a bomb had been detonated on board, and two Libyan nationals were fingered for the crime.

Improvised explosive devices and magnetic bombs were detonated on Sunday and Monday, injuring 12 people, including four police officers and a government official.