NASA maps Beirut blast damage in high-precision image – ClickLancashire

Damage from the massive explosion in Beirut can be seen from space. A stockpile of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as fertilizer or as an ingredient in bombs, suddenly exploded with a force twenty times greater than that of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (also known as the “Mother of All Bombs”), the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the USA arsenal. The video of the powerful explosion had gone viral on the internet, and it is now widely considered the most lethal blas…

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