Phil Gingrey

For the life of me, I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite, in those holes and detonate that dynamite and seal that - seal that leak. And seal it permanently.

American Politician

Owen Jones

Grief is like wandering through a minefield, as my mother puts it: however carefully you tread, a sudden detonation can happen out of nowhere. A song played in a supermarket; an overheard phrase; someone in the distance who your mind cruelly suggests is your loved one for a fleeting moment.

British Journalist

Tom Waits

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

American Musician

Jacob Weisberg

Politicians try to make friends, build constituencies, and avoid gaffes. Trump does the opposite, seeking out land mines in order to detonate them.

American Journalist

Barbara Kruger

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

American Artist

Rush Limbaugh

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

American Entertainer

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.

Mexican Statesman

John Bruton

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

Irish Politician

Selma Blair

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

American Actress

Jeffrey Sachs

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

American Economist

Detonate often implies a deliberate action to trigger an explosion.

Intentional Act

The word emphasizes a powerful, energetic release, not a small pop.

High Energy

Detonating suggests a rapid, often unexpected occurrence.

Sudden Event

This definition highlights an unplanned, spontaneous explosion.

Unexpected Explosion

Detonation can occur without external intervention, unlike 'ignite' or 'fire'.

Self-activation

This use is specific to scientific discussions, especially in astrophysics and nuclear physics.

Scientific Context

Relates to nuclear or thermonuclear reactions, not chemical explosions.

Nuclear Reaction

 I joined the Marine Corps and loved it. I loved being a Marine. It's one of the things I'm most proud of having done in my life. Firing weapons was cool, driving and detonating expensive things was great. But I found I loved the Marine Corps the most for the thing I was looking for the least when I joined, which was the

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 have been on the increase all over the world. But we don't even need the studies to prove it, because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting, when we later find out that the last word that was uttered before the trigger is pulled or the bomb is detonated

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 That maybe by baking sand in the microwave oven or something like that you could have created a nuclear detonation. So we know that that's physically impossible. But before you did the relevant physics how could you have known how it would turn out? Although, couldn't you argue that for life to evolve on Earth

How civilization could...

 a collision course with the Earth that otherwise would have collided mysteriously get deflected or they detonate before they can hit the Earth. Now of course, as earthlings, we know the reason would be that we're trying to save ourselves. We're trying to prevent an impact.

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 This can happen, and the outcome could be very good for humanity. But it doesn't happen automatically. The initial conditions for the intelligence explosion might need to be set up in just the right way if we are to have a controlled detonation.

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 The full scope of a nuclear detonation is almost unimaginable. Hopefully, no one will ever experience another of these catastrophic incidents. But there is a scientifically supported plan of action that could save hundreds of thousands of lives

Can you survive nuclear...

 and detonate, creating a giant cloud of vaporized ice crystals which hurdles towards you at about a hundred miles an hour. Now, at this point, I'm on the left side of this photograph running for my life-- And this other guy with us

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 and you get a stream of liquid copper and this jet of copper will cut through steel no matter what the exact shape of the charge they all will react the same cutting steel when detonated now personnel clear and the demolition team

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 small enough that first responders can carry it everywhere creating a city scale network so that they can detect nuclear materials before a terrorist detonates a bomb these are just a few things

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 final prep before detonation go will we make mistakes on Mars yes I came here to find life not at the expense of it a small price to pay