1.   In late February, CDI did a small blast on a column to determine the best match between explosives and structure.

2.   It was a small blast by industrial standards but in a place like this there is no margin for error.

3.   Or had small blasts eluded the eavesdroppers?

4.   Over the years, there have been scattered accidents at bomb plants where nuclear reactions have caused small blasts and showers of radiation.

5.   Some of the dreaded devices are the size and shape of hockey pucks, meant to rip off a foot or hand with a small blast.

6.   Squirt a small blast of the penetrating oil into and through the paint-can nozzle to clear it completely.

7.   This would cause the pellets to implode, triggering small thermonuclear blasts as in a hydrogen bomb.

8.   Treaty opponents have argued that small blasts can elude the monitoring system and that America might one day need to test its old nuclear arms or design new ones.

9.   What of small blasts that somehow managed to escape detection?

10.   Yet Russia, France, Britain and the United States all want to retain the right to conduct the small blasts.