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1931 Munro & Tiffany Physical Testing of Explosives 2 Manufacturers' samples of permissible explosives or blasting devices... The manufacturer is required to proceed according to the schedule governing application for tests of a new explosion or a new blasting device.

1945 Newsweek 4 June 90 British fighter pilots ran into a new German weapon..a small glider with a bomb for a body. Directed by remote control from a launching plane, the device assumed attack position and hurtled itself at the target, where it exploded.

1954 Life 19 Apr. 21/1 Instead of a black and white shadow of the explosion, viewers saw in glaring redness the bulging fireball of the hydrogen device which vaporized Elugelab Island at Eniwetok on Nov. 1, 1952.

1957 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Jan. 1/3 Only low-yield nuclear tests will be conducted at the Frenchman's Flat Proving Ground... The announcement added high-yield devices (hydrogen bombs) are never tested in Nevada.

1969 N.Y. Times 11 Nov. 1/7 The explosives, described by the Fire Department as devices ‘that could cause extensive damage’, injured at least one person.

1972 Sci. Amer. Dec. 13/3 China exploded a fission device in 1964 and a fusion device in 1967, and it has tested several hydrogen bombs since that date.

1973 New Yorker 13 Dec. 58/3 The word ‘bomb’ was almost never used [at Los Alamos]. A bomb was a ‘device’ or a ‘gadget’.

1978 Kobetz & Cooper Target Terrorism 97 Car bombings can be very spectacular and especially frightening. The device is often constructed so as to explode when certain action..is taken.

1981 Washington Post 3 Jan. a1/2 After sprinkling them with an unidentified liquid, an explosive charge was put on top of the human pile. The device detonated as planned.

1991 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army (rev. ed.) xxiii. 377 The British sappers alone had dealt with over 600,000 mines, unexploded ordnance and other devices by mid-March.