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To: metmom

Texas city explosion in 1947.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster

2300 tons of ammonium nitrate, diesel fuel, and munitions all in close proximity created one of the largest non nuclear explosions of all time.


36 posted on 04/20/2013 8:58:17 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

OK. I never knew about that one.

I thought you were referring to this last one and I didn’t recall hearing numbers like that.


46 posted on 04/20/2013 10:53:55 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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