Blew
Both words in one sentence
- So that's the reason why it blew up, not because it was Going Critical, but because it was deliberately configured to explode.
Source: Containment Field -
Time Bomb: The Germans discovered during the Spanish Civil War that bombs which failed to explode caused more disruption and fear than those that blew up right away, so some bombs have time-delay detonators that can explode days later.
Source: Series / Danger: UXB -
If you placed a remote bomb at the crashed saucer and blew it up from the moon, the earth would explode, shortly followed by a hail of flaming rocks that destroys the moon and kills you.
Source: Detonation Moon
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