The police are trying to defuse a very 'explosive' [='volatile'] situation.
the danger of working with 'high explosives' [=very powerful explosives]
The region has experienced 'explosive' [='rapid'] population growth.
(..) died, trying to do this. I believe I was spared, so I could finish the job. It is in surveillance video and pictures like this of the explosive-laden vehicle just moments before it was parked, that police hope to find the man, who wanted so badly last night, to leave a body count in Times Square. (..)2012 Zero Dark Thirty