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Example sentences for: detonating

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This comes nine months after both countries showed off their nuclear arsenals by detonating bombs underground.
One bomb plot fell apart when a newfangled detonating mechanism proved too complicated for anyone in the high command to understand.
Detonating a smuggled warhead in the hold of a ship docked in, say, New York harbor would make much more sense, while avoiding the huge expense and trouble of building complex intercontinental rockets.
Will they stop the Army from detonating the nuke before they reach 800 feet?
How's that for evidence of dependence on technology breeding antipathy toward it, not to mention the self-evident visceral pleasure of detonating expensive equipment that so quickly becomes obsolete?