detonation

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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

No country other than North Korea is known to have conducted a nuclear detonation for decades.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

The federal agency deployed its national response team, a group of investigators who reconstruct scenes, identify the point of detonation of an explosive device and can help determine the cause of the blast.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025

I walked by the side of the Mill Pond, which smelled of rotting weeds and fish, gulls clustering above it, screeching at the sea-winds, their cries punctuated by the detonation of artillery.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson