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Lebanon has over 100 miles of coastline on which to locate an industrial port, safely away from populated areas.
So why would a government allow highly explosive chemicals, in such large quantities, to be stored in the port of a large city, especially in the center of their capital city? The port should have been restricted to cruise ships, ferries, and personal watercraft.
This explosion was 1/5 the size of 'Little Boy', the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and has all but wiped out the entire city! What an unnecessary tragedy!
Looking on the bright(er) side, from that aerial view of the blast crater, it looks like with a small amount of dredging, they can increase the port's capacity for ship dockage somewhat easily.
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Yeah of course. I have heard people say about dead people that they have gone to a better place
That almost looked like a small nuclear explosion. There was even a mushroom cloud. I looked up ammonium nitrate explosions and it looks like there have been worse ones. Wki has a page on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammoni...rate_disasters
That 1947 Texas City disaster looks bigger. It killed 581 people and knocked planes out of the sky.
You have to be careful with ammonium nitrate storage, and it seems that proper safety measures were simply ignored. and this has tragically led to a significant loss of life, which was over 135 last time I checked.
There have been a number of vast accidental explosions over the years resulting in mushroom clouds.
The 1944 RAF Fauld disaster was the worst explosion in Britain, and such was the force that a large hill is now a large crater, with the explosion being picked up as far away as North Africa.
Great set of photographs in the NY Times today. The devastation in the port is near-total, to include 85% of Lebanon's grain supply. By the time this is over I expect a death toll in the thousands.
Governments are supposed to protect its citizens but in Lebanon's case their government failed terribly.
Six years ago a Russian ship with 2700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate broke down while in the port. The cargo was put in a warehouse where it sat for six years, right next to a warehouse full of fireworks, which was undergoing work that included welding torches. Talk about a "failure chain" ... this is one for the ages.
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The force of your TDS is much greater than any military explosion.
Your blindness and its associated bias does not serve you well. Trump has extended his sympathies and has offered to help.
Alarm at Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that Beirut blast was an ‘attack’
Once again proving Trump has zero credibility in foreign diplomacy.
“I’ve met with some of our great generals and they just seem to feel that this was not some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event,” the president told reporters. “It was a bomb of some kind.” D. Trump
"I would advise against listening to Donald Trump at the best of times, let alone the worst,” Tom Fletcher, a former British ambassador to Lebanon, said.
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