Detonation in a sentence as a noun

This is how you hit the undo button on a nuclear detonation.

Good point - Little Boy's design was not even tested prior to its detonation.

But the lack of accidental detonation was not luck; they were crazy overbuilt.

To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned.

And at some point it does go off, like a hydrogen bomb -- a thermonuclear detonation the size of a planet, the entire surface igniting almost simultaneously.

Not too long before the first detonation was to occur, some scientists voiced a concern that there was a slim chance that the blast would be strong enough to ignite the atmosphere and pretty much destroy the world.

Modern SAM missiles have either a continuous rod warhead, a quite substantial affair that on detonation will spread shrapnel to a substantial range, or, even worse in this context, are kinetic killers like the HVM Starstreak the UK DoD is deploying.

I wonder if you would consider it reckless to build a neighborhood next to a well-established bomb detonation site?Where would you have suggested they fire the cannon, and why do you feel your choice is better than the choice of 3 layers of experts, especially considering this is about the 10th cannon-based episode they've done at this location?Is someone at fault?

Detonation definitions

noun

a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction

See also: explosion blowup

noun

the act of detonating an explosive