Aug 072020
How, indeed HOW, could storage of 2,700+ tons of ammonium nitrate in this fashion possibly have gone wrong?
Here’s what the storage of the ammonium nitrate looked like in #Beirute before the explosion #Beirut pic.twitter.com/6xcvvcOidK
— Freefolk (@freefoIk74) August 6, 2020
هكذا كانت اكياس الموت مكدّسة.
الصور مأخوذة قبل ايام من الحادث، عندما تحدث جهاز امن الدولة عن وجود نيترات الامونيوم في العنبر رقم ١٢. pic.twitter.com/cICAKE5h7x— Dima ديما صادق (@DimaSadek) August 6, 2020
I worked with explosives and solid rocket propellant back in the day. Had I come across a bunker of AN or AP stored thusly, all you’d see of me is a hole in the air in the shape of my ass and a burst of unearthly blue light from where I used to be.