detonation
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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
Once a mine is identified, the actual detonation often takes place the following day.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
No country other than North Korea is known to have conducted a nuclear detonation for decades.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
Trinity fireball at 25 thousandths of a second after detonation, witnessed by Lawrence and others from a watching post twenty miles from the test site.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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