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bystanders near the pager at the time of the explosion; Israel could argue, he writes, that the likelihood of harm to the second set of civilians would be low given the small size of pager explosives. But the first set of civilians would be seriously harmed with a high likelihood. [159]
1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident; 1994 Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku, Estonia. [4] 1993 Tomsk-7 accident at the Reprocessing Complex in Seversk, Russia, when a tank exploded while being cleaned with nitric acid. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas (INES level 4). [5] 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident
Exhibition about the explosion in Cádiz, 2017. The Cádiz explosion was a military accident which occurred at 9:45 pm, on 18 August 1947 at a storage depot in the Base de Defensas Submarinas (Submarine Defence Base) in Cádiz, Spain, when some 1,737 sea mines, torpedoes and depth charges (of a total of 2,228 distributed in two depots), containing 200 tonnes of TNT and amatol, exploded for ...
On the night of 17–18 September 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) 107th arsenal ammunition depot in Toropets, causing a massive series of explosions and fires and shattering of windows across nearby towns.
In July 1962, the US carried out the Starfish Prime test, exploding a 1.44 Mt (6.0 PJ) bomb 400 kilometres (250 mi; 1,300,000 ft) above the mid-Pacific Ocean.This demonstrated that the effects of a high-altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated.
On 3 December 2014, a second explosion occurred at Warehouse No. 12, which contained 100 tonnes of ammunition. The depot was 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) [16] from the epicentre of the first explosion. 430 people from surrounding villages were evacuated. [17] According to Imex Group's lawyer, artillery ammunition and submachine guns were stored in ...
Nuclear blackout, also known as fireball blackout or radar blackout, is an effect caused by explosions of nuclear weapons that disturbs radio communications and causes radar systems to be blacked out or heavily refracted so they can no longer be used for accurate tracking and guidance.
The Tasajera explosion took place in the village of Tasajera, municipality of Pueblo Viejo, Colombia on Monday, 6 July 2020.A tanker truck that was transporting gasoline to Barranquilla along a Caribbean road overturned in Tasajera.