Posted on 02/10/2015 8:09:20 PM PST by Mozilla
The Ukrainian city of Donetsk experienced a giant explosion last night that left many fearing that Russia was using “tactical nukes” against them. The explosion shattered windows and even caused a brief mushroom cloud to form in the sky. The night’s sky was glowing with orange as the explosion occurred. The entire ordeal was captured on video.
In the video above, you can watch as the explosion occurs late last night. The pitch black sky suddenly is illuminated in an orange glow. The blast was so loud that windows in the area shattered. The Daily Mail notes that some in the area feared that Russian had attacked the area with tactical nuclear weapons as a mushroom cloud lingered in the sky.
Though there is speculation that the blast was a small nuclear weapon, pro-Russian rebels say otherwise. According to reports by the pro-Russian rebels, the huge explosion was caused by an artillery shell hitting a rebel-held chemical plant.
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No worries, Obama will ensure that we’ll see a true nuke detonation soon.
They will say it was an accidental explosion of a propane tank. Move on my little sheep.
Thanks for the info!
In one of the vids one can see some small flashes then the one big one.
I wonder what the small flashes were.
it was a chemical factory explosion. for crying out loud, this isn’t Call of Duty!
Brian Williams felt the radioactivity, but was helpless to do anything to prevent this nuclear tragedy, though he was standing a mere 20 feet from the blast. “When you see people you were just talking to incinerated and dying from radiation poisoning.....it just makes me glad that I’m a journalist and immune to radioactivity.” Williams said.
How about a couple in Mecca, Medina...Yemen, Tehran
Thank you for the posting and with photos, no less
NOT everyone sees every thread.
I, for one, did not see the original thread.
Thanks, don’t mean much, but you have earned respect for that.
There are many chemical reactions produce the result shown in the photograph the most obvious is a fuel air explosive either dropped by the Russians or accidentally detonated artillery such as the chemical works or propane / butane / natural gas storage facility.
During the Cold War the United States had several nuclear simulators which were basically high explosive with aluminum powder to increase the flash value of the explosion, we routinely detonated these in Europe but always informed the Soviets before doing so to prevent miss interpretation
I once dated a girl who could speak six different languages.
I don’t consider posting whack-job threads to be a good thing.
Shall we start with your list or mine?
I’ve seen a FAE, and that’s not a FAE.
The cloud glow does not persist the same way. Lots of Ionization going on in a Nuke cloud, and it keeps the glow going for some time after the blast, well up in the cloud. Not so, here.
It looks like a very large conventional explosion like you get with an ammo dump or chemical plant.
I checked with Sarah Brady and Gabby Giffords.
They both agree that it’s obviously a Teabagger shooting an AR-15.
Personally, I was thinking Jill Biden out on her Balcony with a 12 Gauge.
That’s a catastrophy.
Back in 1974 a munitions train exploded in the Roseville, CA, train yard and wiped the town of Antelope off the map. . . bombs up to 10,000 pounds exploded throughout the day and night. One of the explosions broke windows in buildings 20 miles away. I watched some of the 10,000 pound bombs going off from a safe distance of about five miles away. They looked for all the world like miniature nukes with mushroom clouds and all. . . All it takes is a hot surface burst making causing a fireball that rises rapidly in the air, pulling smoke and dust from the explosion with it. There were dozens to a hundred of these things that went off in that disaster. No one was killed, which was a miracle.
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