Hello Kostie,

 LL>> Tactical nuke? What do you think?
 LL>> "While we don't know for sure what caused the explosion in Beirut....
 LL>> It's relatively difficult for a fire to trigger an ammonium nitrate

 KM> Nah, they're not saying the explosion wasn't ammonium nitrate, just that
 KM> they're questioning whether it was due only to the fire. Pretty sure it's
 KM> going to end up just being a case of a series of really bad mistakes and
 KM> poor handling. Heck, look what happened in Halifax in WWI with explosives
 KM> that weren't just haphazardly stored, and during a time people were very
 KM> used to handling such things.

A terrorist organization, such as Hezbollah, certainly should have
known better than to continually building store a 2,750-ton stockpile
of highly volatile ammonium nitrate at a port since 2013, with very
few (if any) safeguards in place, despite several warnings of what
would happen. And to think all it took was one careless welder to
do such damage, leaving at least 160 people dead and injuring more
than 6,000? How many people were left homeless? Oh, that was all
the folks who were protesting after the blast ...

Timothy McVeigh didn't need to be a welder to do what he did.
All he needed was one big truck. What if he had chosen to use
a tactical nuke rather than a load of ammonium nitrate?

--Lee

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