The world has gone over sixty years without another detonation of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
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Dave Williams, a pioneer of Christian metal in the UK, organises the event and publishes Detonation magazine.
While immediate and direct deaths from an EMP detonation would be minimal, associated long term mortality would be very high.
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One Navy engineer gave a presentation detailing the nine months he spent hacking insurgent bombs, jamming their radio frequencies to prevent detonation.
It was not clear what the detonation device was, but the charges against Dzhokhar say he was using a cellphone moments before the blasts.
On April 28, US soldiers in Iraq discovered detonation wires across the street from the newly built Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad.
While welcoming the possibility it will be easier to "boot out" for foreign criminals - it foresees the "detonation of an explosive row" with the Lib Dems.
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He left the defense industry, and went on to invent the Mylar balloon, an improved version of Liquid Paper, and Kinepak, a kind of explosive that reduces the risk of accidental detonation.
Military planners understand the vulnerability of the grid to upset, but have been more concerned with man-made threats such as the electromagnetic pulse that would be generated by a high-altitude nuclear detonation.
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They have long since outlived their design life and for at least 18 years none of them has been tested in an operationally realistic way (that is, with an underground nuclear detonation).
As a result, the legacy stockpile does not possess many of the safety features a modern design would include, and these legacy weapons have capabilities for detonation-yield and accuracy that are not aligned with today's post-Cold War needs.
So the government's prospects for a whole flotilla of major bills now depends on the Lib Dem whips' ability to re-assert party discipline - and some senior figures seem quite content at what one called "last night's controlled detonation".
It was a time when it seemed that Petraeus could not complete a routine meeting without being interrupted by an aide handing him a three-by-five card reporting the latest assassination of an Iraqi ally or the detonation of a car bomb in a Baghdad marketplace.
He was also aware of a more immediate risk in those cold-war days: a smaller visitor (such as the one that had exploded over Siberia in 1908, flattening 2, 000 square miles of forest) might be mistaken by either superpower for a nuclear detonation and trigger Armageddon.
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