Back when my dad was a refinery engineer for Texaco, the interesting bit of info was passed to him that the refinery where he worked was a secondary target for Soviet nuclear weapons planned for the *Gateway Yard* railroad center in East St Louis. Nearby Scott Air Force Base was the primary target, with the railyard and refinery back-up targets for earmarked following strikes in the result they got lucky and took out Scott, a SAC base, with their first shot, which could have been either missile or aircraft delivered...or *other,* possibly in a railcar.
He did a little calculation on the result if the petroleum in-process in the plant and it's storage tanks was all released simultaneously, as by a well-targeted nuclear airburst, and came up with a crater 8 miles in diameter, with blast results out to 14 miles. The school I went to was about a mile and a half from the main plant facility.
Foes of LNG development point to the fact that the potential energy content of a single LNG tanker, which contains natural gas that is supercooled to 260 degrees Fahrenheit and concentrated to 1/600th of its normal gaseous volume, is equivalent to 700 tons of TNT or about 55 times the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
