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The problem here is that the FCC is detonating a nuclear bomb to try to put out a house fire.

Military has been blowing up missiles and detonating bombs on land at military testing sites for decades.

> The problem here is that the FCC is detonating a nuclear bomb to try to put out a house fire.

Before detonating the first nuclear bomb, scientists did tons of calculations trying to figure out if it would ignite the atmosphere[1].

More simply, the white dwarf star is the size of a planet, and its entire surface is detonating all at once.

It's also of note that during its intended trip into criticality, it ended up detonating about a half mile from its target.

There could easily have been a secret embedded in each bomb, reported on defusal or detonation, to prevent people from detonating each other.

I believe the flaw was the assumption that the only way to get something into space was via detonating explosives.

Shots which were almost exactly one frame away, and aimed at the edge of the ship, were detonating prematurely due to a vector math bug.

He said he was close to detonating the heads.

In a normal street car any level of octane high enough to keep the engine from pre-detonating is more than sufficient - there is no boost in power.

The China Lake crowd developed proximity fuzes, designed to turn a near miss into a hit by detonating the warhead close to the target on a near miss.

Detonating nukes on the surface is "easy", but would it be effective?

"dirty bomb" is a radiological weapon, not a fission/fusion weapon, and is exactly what detonating explosives (or H gas, or whatever) inside a commercial power reactor or RTG would be.

Detonating by the mid section of a Scud means you're just shredding empty fuel tanks.

Detonating slightly late against an aircraft is actually a good thing, since it makes the Patriot explode near the aircraft's middle instead of its nose.