The deadly explosion that devastated Beirut appears to have been far more powerful than the ...

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A warehouse area at a port in Beirut exploded Tuesday, killing more than 100 people and causing extensive damage in the Lebanese capital./ The explosion is under investigation, a focus of which is thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive material, improperly stored in the area./ Weapons experts told Insider they estimated the explosive yield of the deadly blast to be several hundred tons of TNT equivalent, making it at least a couple of orders of magnitude more powerful than the so-called "Mother of All Bombs."/ An ...

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