detonator

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For more common parts, like the plastics and metals and wiring inside each detonator, there are also questions about how the years spent in warheads might affect their integrity.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

There's no need, since their coupledom is simply a detonator for the bombs Hill and Barris designed to go off in their families.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

You’d think he was pointing a detonator at Aquaman.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2019

Publication of photographs, including a device described as a "possible detonator" by the New York Times, prompted a furious response from within Whitehall and from UK police chiefs.

From BBC • May 24, 2017

Powell unlimbered the detonator, and his eyes searched anxiously across the dusky background where the only light was robot light and it was impossible to tell a projecting boulder from a shadow.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov