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A student aptly called this impact a ‘fertilizer bomb.’ Overall, this is very good news for the evolution of early life on Earth, as impacts would have been much more frequent during the early ...
The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms. Researchers assessed ...
Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies had warned local police agencies about potential vehicle-ramming attacks before the holidays. [1] [2] In a 2017 memo, the city government also noted the risks of a mass casualty incident, including from a vehicle attack in the French Quarter, and it had plans to increase security in the area. [3]
[3] Several factors may have led to it failing to detonate: the detonator was not properly attached; the gunpowder content of the MM-88s was minimal; and the urea-based fertilizer was not of a type suitable for bomb-making, unlike the ammonium nitrate-based fertilizer which was used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
West Fertilizer Explosion and Fire investigation - U.S. Chemical Safety Board. Final report ; Letter from the CSB to Senator Barbara Boxer about access to the investigation site; CSB Video Documenting the Blast Damage in West, Texas; Texas fertilizer plant explosion collected news and commentary at The Guardian
A structure fire burns at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Allison Lee Isley/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Urea nitrate is a fertilizer-based high explosive that has been used in improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and various terrorist acts elsewhere in the world such as in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. [2]
Here’s what EPA chief Lee Zeldin thinks about RFK Jr.’s herbicide theory: Scientists need to be ‘empowered’