Nuclear detonations invariably and disturbingly raise issues about beauty and the sublime, as well as a multitude of other vital issues. |
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Ripple firecracker detonations erupted from the rise overlooking the barracks as the militiamen opened fire. |
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Other thunderous detonations resounded from the area of the airport before the all-clear siren sounded, leaving an eerie quiet. |
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They said several detonations, probably rockets fired from hand-held launchers were also heard. |
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One high-flying plane could be seen dropping flares before the detonations. |
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For the recalcitrants, the hell-on-earth of daisy-cutters, thermobaric bombs and the everlasting half-life of the waste from nuclear detonations. |
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Hearing the detonations, the local vigilantes stormed in, shooting anything that moved. |
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But the shattering detonations on Friday sounded like heavy mortar fire, and they shook our house to its foundations. |
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However, the nightly detonations testify that neither code nor law is being obeyed. |
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Behind me, I could hear several sirens blaring in the background despite constant detonations from the fire in front. |
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Greif's notion of horror seems to be noise, the louder the better, with abundant offstage detonations. |
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Heavy detonations, air raid sirens and the crackle of anti-aircraft fire thundered through Baghdad last night as the Iraqi capital faced a second night of attacks. |
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Twenty-eight-year-old Hobson designed a plan to position the old collier Memmac across the inlet, then to set off a series of detonations to sink her. |
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The huge detonations sent coalition staffers running into the hallways. |
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When we left, however, there was another air raid on and you could hear the detonations, feel the detonations even rippling through the edge of the city. |
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Sir Stamford Raffles, the then British Lieutenant Governor of Java, reported a series of titanic detonations loud enough to be heard in Sumatra 1,600 kilometres away. |
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The detonations collapsed the three-storey house in on itself, leaving a ragged hole in the street's facade, as though a tooth had been torn from a smile. |
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The detonations at the racecourse stand displays are louder still, and pose a threat both to wildlife and to any babies and young children living in the area. |
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For comparison, all explosives used in World War II, including the detonations of two US nuclear bombs, amounted to only two megatons. |
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The World Service reported the lack of detonations after receiving a briefing on the matter from a Ministry of Defence official. |
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Dynamite or nitroglycerin detonations were used to increase oil and natural gas production from petroleum bearing formations. |
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They witnessed hundreds of test detonations of atomic and hydrogen bombs and radio-active detonators. |
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Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known as detonations and travel via supersonic shock waves. |
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Georgian officals had believed that previous detonations of bridges linking Ajaria to Georgia were the result of Russian machinations. |
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John Leo on the latest in America's long line of f-bomb detonations. |
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Premature detonations dropped to four to six percent when sensitivity was adjusted to 30 to 45 millivolts for mines deployed by the last five minelaying excursions. |
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Two more nuclear tests were conducted in the Monte Bello Islands as part of Operation Mosaic in 1956, the detonations taking place on Alpha and Trimouille Islands. |
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