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The disaster was the largest man-made explosion of the time and caused extensive damage to Richmond, Dartmouth, and the Miꞌkmaq neighborhood of Tufts Cove. 4-6 December 1918 United States: Sayreville, New Jersey ~100 100+ T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion – Munitions explosion at an ammunition plant in New Jersey
On 27 November 1944, the RAF Ammunition Depot at Fauld, Staffordshire, became the site of the largest explosion in the UK, when 3,700 tonnes of bombs stored in underground bunkers covering 17,000 m 2 (180,000 sq ft) exploded en masse. The explosion was caused by bombs being taken out of store, primed for use, and replaced with the detonators ...
The explosive properties of TNT are discovered by Carl Häussermann. [9] 1894 PETN is patented by the Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprengstoff A.G. [15] 1898 RDX is invented by Georg Friedrich Henning, but not used until World War II. [16] 1906 Dunnite is invented by US Army Major Beverly W. Dunn. 1908
At a meeting with the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954, following Operation Castle, Teller proposed the 10-gigaton Sundial device and the 1-gigaton Gnomon device. Others at the meeting were shocked by the proposal, and Isidor Isaac Rabi dismissed the idea as an "advertising stunt" rather than a serious proposal for a weapon. [4]
Explosion of a dynamite depot in Brazil. [13] 600+ 28 March 1943: Explosion of the Caterina Costa, at port of Naples; over 3000 were also injured 590: 3 November 1893: Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581: 16 April 1947
The Tsar Bomba is the single most physically powerful device ever deployed on Earth, the most powerful nuclear bomb tested and the largest human-made explosion in history. [65] For comparison, the largest weapon ever produced by the US, the now-decommissioned B41 , had a predicted maximum yield of 25 Mt (100 PJ).
The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time. [1] It released the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ). [2] Mont-Blanc was under orders from the French government to carry her cargo from New York City via Halifax to Bordeaux, France.
The Lakeview Gusher was an eruption of hydrocarbons from a pressurized oil well in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California, in 1910.Caused by a blowout, it created the largest accidental oil spill in history, lasting 18 months and releasing an estimated 9 million barrels (1.4 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of crude oil.