21.   The argument that it costs too much would vaporize with the first explosion.

22.   The first explosion blew out the glass.

23.   The first explosions of incoming missiles erupted in the night skies of the Kosovo capital, Pristina.

24.   The first explosions and anti-aircraft fire in Kabul, Afghanistan, were shown on Arab television networks from Egypt to Lebanon to Saudi Arabia.

25.   There were no injuries because soldiers escorting the bus had ordered it to back up after hearing the first explosion, the commander said.

26.   They had spent an hour walking down the stairs after the first explosion.

27.   They also speculated that the first explosion might trigger other blasts of radwaste throughout the dump site.

28.   They would wait for the NATO bombing, and as soon as the first explosions came, the Serbs would begin to shoot and set off explosions.

29.   Thus Truman delayed his meeting at Potsdam with Stalin until July, when he would know the results of the first nuclear explosion, in New Mexico.

30.   Truman secretly received word here in Potsdam of the first successful explosion of a U.S. nuclear weapon in the desert of New Mexico.