detonation

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“The Complex,” more meandering and less searing — is a departure from such detonation.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Polymarket alone has hosted what Bloomberg estimated as more than $500m in bets related to the Iran war, at one point offering an opportunity to play the odds on the chance of nuclear detonation.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 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 last US nuclear test explosion was in September 1992, with a 20-kiloton underground detonation at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site.

From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025

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

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston