Maybe Nichols/McVeigh was the first time it was used intentionally on that scale, but the accidents show that it was simple to do on that scale; was just a matter of time before motivation converged.I'm all too familiar with the Texas City fire. I've worked there in some of the plants too.
You keep mentioning scale. I picture the scale difference between a ?20 ton?
ship and a five ton truck to be quite vast. Capacity comes to mind.
And all these were accidents, featuring large amounts of legitimately transported or stored quantities of ammonium nitrate...
MULTIPLE incidents, all showing what a pile of ANFO can do.
What part of "large quantity of ANFO ignited in a confined space equals an OKC type bomb" don't you get?'Texas City just blew up'
The second explosion, 16 hours after the Grandcamp blew up, came from another ship loaded with fertilizer.
The High Flyer, its turbines down for repairs, had been loaded with 961 tons of ammonium nitrate Ñ slightly more than what exploded on the Grandcamp.
X pounds versus several tons. Exponential?
X pounds versus several tons. Exponential? Understood, yet the scaling still fits: the ships in question were some distance from what was destroyed, while McVeigh's truck was only a sidewalk-width away. The former also caused significantly more destruction despite the distance. Amount vs. distance. vs. damage seems to scale properly sans conspiracy.