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Determining the power of explosions is difficult, but this was probably the largest planned explosion in history until the 1945 Trinity atomic weapon test, and the largest non-nuclear planned explosion until the 1947 British Heligoland detonation (below). The Messines mines detonation killed more people than any other non-nuclear deliberate ...
RAF Fauld explosion – An underground Royal Air Force ordnance depot exploded, causing the United Kingdom's largest ever explosion. 9 May 1945 United States: Sunnyside, Utah: 23 Unknown Gas explosion at the Sunnyside Fuel Company's #1 mine. 25 May 1945 United States: Aberdeen, Maryland: 12 ~50 1945 Edgewood Arsenal explosion: 21 May 1945 Australia
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The Thiokol-Woodbine explosion occurred at 10:53 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, February 3, 1971, at the Thiokol chemical plant, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Woodbine, Georgia, and 30 miles (48 km) north of Jacksonville, Florida, when large quantities of flares and their components in building M-132 were ignited by a fire and detonation occurred.
The M-388, a W54 nuclear warhead variant, weighed less than 60 pounds (27 kg). At the projectile's lowest yield setting of 10 tons, roughly equivalent to a single MOAB, its explosive force was only 1/144,000th (0.0007%) that of the Air Force's 1.44-megaton W49 warhead, a nuclear weapon commonly found on American ICBMs from the early 1960s.
Two explosive devices were discovered hidden at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday and Monday, prompting partial evacuations, the police said Monday.
RAF Fauld explosion, UK underground munitions storage depot in 1944, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history; SS John Burke, a Liberty ship carrying ammunition, was hit by a kamikaze pilot and disintegrated in an enormous explosion on December 28, 1944.
For nearly three years now, 10 portraits on the outer wall of a Beirut fire station have honoured its firefighters killed in the explosion at the city's port. Their surviving colleagues, grinding ...