Fifteen seconds later, two of them are killed by shrapnel from an antipersonnel round that detonates above the street nearby.

But what Rotem and few others knew was that the protection afforded by these reinforced caves was wholly inadequate if a nuclear weapon detonated nearby.

Suddenly, a tactical nuke detonates nearby; killing Razor Team along with anyone else who was present at the meeting.

"Naturally not," Mars agreed as a shell detonated nearby.

Weapons developed primarily for anti-tank roles can add proximity fusing to increase the probability of a kill by having the warhead detonate nearby the target without having to make contact.

Twice more Ferriter's command closed the immobile destroyer, both ships endangered by warheads detonating nearby.

A few of their missiles managed to detonate nearby, but not in a coordinated spread.

When the attack begins, an off-course Minuteman missile detonates nearby, and the blast severely damages Blue Dome Mountain.

She said the final straw came when she took clothes outside to be hung to dry and a Katyusha detonated nearby.

However a direct hit was not actually required; an aircraft might be destroyed or critically damaged by a shell detonating nearby.