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Staged detonation is an overall principle used for many explosive devices. A general description of the principle is that one explosive compound with...

superheated plasma following the detonation of the weapon's fission stage, the plasma then triggering the fusion-stage detonation. It has been revealed by unclassified...

A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel...

(abbreviated as shcramjet; also called oblique detonation wave engine; also called standing oblique detonation ramjet (sodramjet); or simply referred to as...

A pulse detonation engine (PDE) is a type of propulsion system that uses detonation waves to combust the fuel and oxidizer mixture. The engine is pulsed...

resumption of nuclear testing after the Test Ban Moratorium, with the detonation timed to coincide with the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the...

The ZND detonation model is a one-dimensional model for the process of detonation of an explosive. It was proposed during World War II independently by...

weapon is an explosive device or projectile that has two or more stages of detonation, assisting it to penetrate either reactive armour on an armoured...

the world; some in secluded areas and others more densely populated. Detonation of nuclear weapons (in a test or during war) releases radioactive fallout...

commonly associated with a nuclear explosion, but any sufficiently energetic detonation or deflagration will produce a similar effect. They can be caused by powerful...

contain relatively sensitive explosive compound meant to initiate the staged detonation train. Crimping a detonator in the wrong place or with improper tools...

weapon instead). Its detonation causes it to shine intensely with x-radiation, which illuminates and implodes the second stage filled with a large quantity...

Carbon detonation or carbon deflagration is the violent reignition of thermonuclear fusion in a white dwarf star that was previously slowly cooling. It...

of concept experiment to validate the concepts used for multi-megaton detonations. Samples from the explosion had traces of the isotopes plutonium-246...

DetonatioN FocusMe (DFM) is a Japanese esports organization with professional teams competing across several titles. It was established as a Counter-Strike...

number of factors, the most important of which is the altitude of the detonation. The term "electromagnetic pulse" generally excludes optical (infrared...

bomb, and in this case it shoots neutrons at the core at the moment of detonation. It is essentially kick starting the reaction so the maximum fission reactions...

A ground burst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an artillery shell, nuclear weapon or air-dropped bomb that explodes at ground level. These...

Prime detonation.) Operation Dominic - shot Kingfish. Detonation altitude: 96300m. Yield: 400kt. Operation Dominic - shot Kingfish. Detonation altitude:...

compressed detonation method and device to effect such detonation[permanent dead link]" Jerry Pentel and Gary G. Fairbanks(1992)"Multiple Stage Munition[dead...