Posted on 08/05/2020 8:31:01 AM PDT by C19fan
Also, note that hezbolla just attempted to atack Israel out of this town.
I thought that Ammonium Nitrate needed some type of other explosion, an initiator, to cause the Ammonium Nitrate to detonate. I’ve heard there were “fireworks” stored near the AN. Would fireworks really initiate an AN detonation? Something seems fishy about this whole thing.
Killing someone dead is apparently WAY worse than just killing them!
I will not deny that the problem was inappropriate storage.
I will attribute that fact to bureaucratic ignorance. Storage was in fact a problem because of the sheer volume. However, since the material is in fact fertilizer and is shipped by literally the ship load, the problem must not be unique.
Even if the storage was considered to be temporary, bureaucratic inertia would prevent being moved once it was temporarily stored. Lots of people are going to study this explosion with extreme care
There is another thread on a visit by France’s Macron. Perhaps the Ammonium Nitrate is of French origin. Now that’s funny
Ammonia nitrate can be used as a base for more powerful explosives. Also ammonia nitrate and aluminum can be used as s rocket propellant.
AN just needs to get hot enough to go boom. Catching fire will set it off.
Check out the 1947 Texas City Disaster.
I think it was confiscated from a Russian company. That alone would make me suspicious
I thought the FEds killed Timothy McVeigh.
OK, thanks for correcting me. However, clearly things have gone wrong.
Starting with Lloyd's of London. THEY want to know why a shipment of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate got stuck in limbo at that warehouse in Beirut for seven years and why it wasn't moved to somewhere safer many years ago.
The guy who was welding set off the explosion as far as I know.
Before picture of the warehouse interior through doorway...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8595359/Lebanese-authorities-repeatedly-warned-danger-hazardous-chemicals.html
...and even then it was the french so the level of competence is questionable.
Intelsky has a photo of dudes doing welding work last month inside the nitrate warehouse next to 2000lb bags of this stuff
The triggering “device” appeared to be a large burn off of munitions prior to the 2kt blast. Golly, wonder who would stock a warehouse full of missiles, warheads, and ammunition in the heart of Beirut?
Yes, it was a weapons depot. A friend in the States (born and reared in Beirut) said all the locals in Beirut knew that munitions were being stored in that area.
here’s the only reason it exploded, basically it was ANFO:
“It was manufactured in a patented process, mixed with clay, petrolatum, rosin and paraffin wax to avoid moisture caking.”
“AN just needs to get hot enough to go boom. Catching fire will set it off.”
nope.
“Check out the 1947 Texas City Disaster.”
i did, and here’s what wiki stated about the fertilizer that exploded:
“It was manufactured in a patented process, mixed with clay, petrolatum, rosin and paraffin wax to avoid moisture caking.”
in other words, it was ANFO ... not just plain ammonium nitrate ...
Sad all former colonies have turned into complete sh*tholes. The anti-colonialists/”revolutionaries” pulled off a great scam that the world sucked up. These former colonies all are the cancer of the planet and hell on earth. The void created gave us Islam.
How many Beirut firefighters wee killed?
Any?
Odd we haven’t heard by now.
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