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Old 06-14-07, 12:35 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by vindex
Wow ... like an atom bomb.

Similar thing happened in Halifax in 1917, by accident, destroyed the entire port. The largest explosion in history prior to the atom bomb, and the largest non-nuclear explosion ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

View of the mushroom cloud roughly 15 seconds
after the blast, 21 km (13 miles) away.

From your link, studied this in school.

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