A big chunk of the building's wall was gone, absorbed by the implosion device, but nobody inside had died.
"The main tower at the religious institute fell to an implosion device as you ordered, as did the office of the Council of Freedom."
The equipment included specialised high-speed cameras, of the sort used to develop implosion devices, as well as radiation detectors.
These bombs were smaller and more powerful than the implosion device dropped on Nagasaki, experts say, because they contained an "air gap" or empty space around the central core of nuclear material.
The entire plutonium weapon design effort at Los Alamos was soon changed to the more complicated implosion device, code-named "Fat Man."
Just before the implosion device went off, Goldar stole the Zeo Crystal with the help of Rito.
Scientists were confident that an implosion device would work, but these new design difficulties were great.
All of that "dual use" equipment also has peaceful applications - for example, a tool to make parts for a nuclear implosion device or for a powerful commercial jet turbine.
With an implosion device, the only way to be sure a human was included in the condensation is a deep-spec analysis of the material.
The Nagasaki bomb, Fat Man was also an implosion device.