A controlled explosion is the deliberate detonation of an explosive, generally as a means of demolishing a building or destroying a second improvised or...

University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) and neutralized in a controlled explosion by the Lebanese Army. Hezbollah supporters reportedly prevented journalists...

sea. Government-sanctioned explosions have occurred in South Africa, Iceland, and Australia. A number of controlled explosions have been made in South Africa...

A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location. Dust explosions can occur where any dispersed...

controlled explosion was carried out on a suspicious item in Cathedral Gardens. At 22:32, a member of the public made a 999 call about the explosion and...

by the Metropolitan Police who also carried out a controlled explosion. After the controlled explosion, it was found that the package was non-threatening...

Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) is a controlled demolition firm headquartered in Phoenix, Maryland. The firm was founded by Jack Loizeaux who used dynamite...

unexploded German bomb was found in Southampton and was blown up in a controlled explosion by the Royal Navy. 11 August 2015: A 550-pound (250 kg) German bomb...

On 4 August 2020, a major explosion occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, triggered by the ignition of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. The chemical, confiscated...

of the discovery of a suspicious device, which was destroyed in a controlled explosion. It was confirmed to be an accidental leftover from a training exercise...

prompted the Canadian government to remove the top of the mountain in a controlled explosion on 5 April 1958. The event was one of the first live coast-to-coast...

A steam explosion is an explosion caused by violent boiling or flashing of water or ice into steam, occurring when water or ice is either superheated...

amount of explosive material was found in the Leeds raids and a controlled explosion was carried out at one of the properties. Explosives were also found...

IRA on 24 April 1996. On 19 July, security forces carried out a controlled explosion on a bomb left at Ealing Broadway station and public transport was...

are still found to be dangerous, and are typically destroyed via a controlled explosion. No 73 Grenade Blacker Bombard British anti-invasion preparations...

lanes in each direction. Once the old bridge was demolished via controlled explosion in October 2017, a new westbound cable-stayed bridge with four lanes...

just north of White City and Shepherd's Bush. It was subjected to a controlled explosion and appears to have been a further bomb made to the same design as...

nitroglycerin by inventing the detonator, or blasting cap, that allowed a controlled explosion set off from a distance using a fuse. In 1863 Nobel performed his...

discovered in Wormwood Street, London (City) EC2. It was disrupted by a controlled explosion, causing no damage or injuries. 16 September 1993: Two small incendiary...

fastening or explosive fastening, this technology is powered by a controlled explosion of a small chemical propellant charge, similar to the process that...

development in Newtownards, County Down. The bomb was destroyed in a controlled explosion five days later. SC500 bomb discovery (2025) On the weekend of 22...

estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time. It released the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons...

they are regularly collected by the Belgian army for disposal by controlled explosion at a specialist center in Poelkapelle. The depot was built after...

an Army training base near Drawsko Pomorskie to be destroyed in a controlled explosion. In early December, an SC1000 bomb was recovered in the inner city...

exploded diagram. An object is represented as if there had been a small controlled explosion emanating from the middle of the object, causing the object's parts...

(TEDAX) arriving at the scenes of the explosions detonated two of the remaining three IEDs in controlled explosions, but the third was not found until later...

towers would indicate that the towers had been brought down by controlled explosions. NIST attributes these puffs to air pressure, created by the decreasing...

the old ammunition was supposed to occur with a series of small, controlled explosions. However, a chain of events led to the entire stockpile detonating...

several stages. The first stage took place on 3 October 2019, with a controlled explosion of the turbine hall. The southern section of the boiler house was...

neat pile." Meanwhile, public interest in the spectacle of controlled building explosion also grew. On 30 October 1994, Philadelphia's Sears Eastern...