Synonyms for blowup

Said I owed the company plenty for the damage done by the blowup.

They had a blowup last night, it seems, and she has stabbed him.

There could be a blowup that would throw Hub politics back into the kind of snarl they haven't been in for a hundred years.

Before the blowup on Earth, the galactics had made occasional landings to gather animals and seeds of food plants.

Actually we had the answer to protection during the Crazy Years before the blowup when everybody talked peace and built missiles.