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WATCH: Fire Breaks Out in Rocket Fuel Plant | Last Moments

Qxir | April 18, 2025

With the Space Shuttle fleet temporarily grounded after the Challenger Disaster, this production plant was left with two years worth of excess ammonium perchlorate – which is unstable and highly flammable. Watch what happens when the plant catches fire. “On May 4, 1988, a fire followed by several explosions occurred […]

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How the Beirut explosion was a government failure

Vox | March 13, 2025

And why Lebanon is on the verge of collapse. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion rocked Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon. The blast occurred when sparks in a warehouse hit a stockpile of ammonium nitrate — a highly explosive material — that was […]