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His target splits with a satisfying rumble, and then the fragments detonate as he strafes them with more bullets.

Operators on the ground chose to detonate the rocket shortly after launch once it was established that there were problems.

He was referring to the lone wolves such as ISIS is now urging online to detonate pipe bombs in Times Square.

Al-Shahzad failed to properly detonate his bomb and was reported to the New York police by a Muslim-American street vendor.

That a suicide bomber will detonate himself in the middle of Fifth Avenue?

He then unscrewed the fuze and threw it away before it could detonate the shell.

They are very difficult to detonate, and if set on fire do not explode like gunpowder.

The depth-charge had fouled a trailing wire from some of my ‘stage scenery sky’ and been dragged along to detonate close astern.

I decided to send three balls down each, leave 12 in the cavern, then detonate them all at once.

In fact guncotton in the colloid state may be hammered on an anvil, and, as a rule, only the portion struck will detonate or fire.