detonation

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Textron’s tech can also trick mine sensors into thinking a large boat is passing, triggering a relatively safe detonation.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Under Finland's 1987 Nuclear Energy Act, the import, manufacture, possession and detonation of nuclear explosives is prohibited on Finnish soil - even during wartime.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

ICF allows scientists to replicate and study the effects of nuclear weapons, including how materials behave under the same extreme temperatures and pressures found inside a nuclear detonation, without an actual nuclear test.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

The federal agency deployed its national response team, a group of investigators who reconstruct scenes, identify the point of detonation of an explosive device and can help determine the cause of the blast.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025

What happened in Sudan could be compared to the secret detonation of an atomic bomb.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston