detonate

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Marshall Islanders are still plagued by health and environmental effects of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb tests from 1946 to 1958, which included "Castle Bravo" at Bikini Atoll in 1954 - the largest U.S. bomb ever detonated.

From Reuters

Wagner may have had thousands of troops at its disposal, he said, but it's unlikely any of them knew how to detonate a bomb.

From Reuters

In one attack, a suicide bomber and a truck bomb detonated at nightclubs in Bali in October 2002, killing more than 200 people, mostly Australians and Indonesians as well as seven Americans.

From New York Times

Unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years and then indiscriminately detonate.

From BBC

They are meant to detonate on impact, but a significant proportion do not explode initially - often when they land land on wet or soft ground.

From BBC