In particular, they are used to verify that a (significant) nuclear detonation cannot happen by accident.

Another option would be a nuclear detonation on the asteroid's surface or above it.

These were all identified as tactical nuclear detonations on and under the sea.

Shepard has only enough time to save one of them; the other is killed in the nuclear detonation.

Nor do I have any knowledge of any other recent nuclear detonation.

In a nuclear detonation, medical resources will be quickly overwhelmed.

Usually, we get more reliable reports than this of nuclear detonations.

It was the next thing to a nuclear detonation.

She stood up then sat down as the ground rumbled to another nuclear detonation.

"I knew what a nuclear detonation, an air burst, would do over the center of Manhattan," he said.