Quotes about detonated (7 Quotes)


    Sixty years ago tomorrow, the crew of the Enola Gay watched in awe as their payload detonated over the city of Hiroshima. As the bomb exploded, we saw the entire city disappear, ... I wrote in my log, 'My God, what have we done'

    The attacker carried the bomb in a motorcycle and detonated when he drove to the parking area of a military training center. Nine including five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed, and 28 others injured,

    We had persons unknown, pull a vehicle in front of the embassy -- the Jordanian Embassy -- stop the vehicle, exit the vehicle and walk away, and the vehicle sometime later was detonated with a large amount explosives inside.


    It would appear that it was a buried 50 kg (110 pound) device, and it may have been very simple. It was command (remotely) detonated at the front of the tank, blowing the engine clean out of the top of the tank and killing the driver instantly.


    I'm sure they'll be detonated. These are highly explosive and somewhat unstable in salt water. They could definitely injure anyone near, any diver near there, any person in water, any boat near that explosion.

    If the bag had, in fact, contained the explosive device that was anticipated, the bomb could have detonated several times over in the hour that the bag sat there.



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