• communism_liker_69 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    not just ammonium nitrate, but 2700 tons of it.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-huge-blast-port-lebanon-capital?CMP=share_btn_tw&page=with:block-5f29cf378f089d9b758a6c23#block-5f29cf378f089d9b758a6c23

    for comparison, the Tianjin explosion was 800 tons and the Texas City disaster was 2200 tons

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster