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Subject: [OM] OT: Beirut Explosion
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:24:22 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     I've been looking at the video and stills of the Beirut explosion, as well 
as reading articles on the BBC World News.  The most startling photo is that of 
the beached freighter in the foreground and the demolished grain elevator in 
the midground.  That grain elevator deflected most of the blast energy and 
saved the apartments in the background from being demolished.  The death toll 
could have been significantly higher.

     There was 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in that warehouse that had been 
confiscated from a freighter back in 2014 or thereabouts.  That's 2.7 kilotons, 
so it's no wonder that the explosion had the characteristics of a nuclear 
detonation.

Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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