A massive explosion has just hit Beirut, Lebanon (video)

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[–]magnora7[S] 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (11 children)

Wow that was like a nuclear bomb almost, that was a much bigger explosion than I ever expected. Holy cow.

Reuters says it occurred in a port area but doesn't give a reason why: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/large-blast-in-beirut-port-area-shakes-lebanons-capital-sources-say-idUSKCN25021M

Another video on twitter (just below the OP video on twitter) shows what look to be fireworks going off right before the big explosion, so it might've been a shipment of fireworks.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

It IS a nuke. With some other explosive chemicals sprinkled on top for color and cuteness.

[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Very doubtful. We'll know soon as the radiation from a nuke would be easily measurable

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Yes, unless there is muzzling of that info by co-opted media and L.E.

Also, newer nukes are much cleaner than we are used to thinking. But yeah there should definitely be radiation, unless the latest tech does away with it entirely. The fog of ashes in the air after the blast makes me very suspicious. Conventional explosives don't do that.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The fog of ashes in the air after the blast makes me very suspicious

Yeah the yellow fog after is why people are saying ammoium perchlorate was the explosive

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

There were TWO explosions. Yes, I saw the coloring of the first. It's the second with its extremely energetic blast wavefront that puzzles me. Also, the after-blast sound that goes on... Not fire, not explosion, but... Something else. WHAT IS IT?

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

not a nuke

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

it was a munitions factory, making explosives for Hezbollah. everyone knows it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes it was. Do you have a point, or are you going to show that such explosion total energy is possible without a nuke? Did I assert it wasn't?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

For your education. https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/08/08/the-history-of-nuclear-weapons-design-1945-2015-banned-by-national-security-letter-ignored-by-vt/

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

the 15kt NY diagram looks about 3 times bigger than the Beirut explosion.

I wasn't aware of the tiny nukes, so maybe it as a nuke, next to a bunch of fertilizer

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's always like that. I get told I'm stupid and don't know anything, only to be proven right later. I get nothing but hatred out of educating people.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/08/08/the-history-of-nuclear-weapons-design-1945-2015-banned-by-national-security-letter-ignored-by-vt/