(Thanks, a. :)

Reader a. writes:

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[...] There are four reasons why Jim is absolutely wrong in his article that the explosion in Beirut is A NUKE. First, Jim is just a journalist who writes stories without any credible science background. I’m speaking because I have an engineering background with more credibility then a fake writing journalist. And YES, ammonia nitrate does explode with an accelerant. Timothy McVeigh used ammonia nitrate with diesel fuel as an accelerant to explode the government building in Oklahoma City.

1. A building or obstacle does not burn for several minutes before a nuclear bomb explodes. When a nuclear bomb explodes, there is a blinding white flash of intense light upon detonation. There is no pre-warning of any kind, not even smoke.

2. [... M]ore then seven years ago a Russian ship developed mechanical problems and had to pull into Beirut’s port for repairs. This ship was loaded with the 2,750 tonnes of ammonia nitrate and was seized by the local authorities for illegal shipment. After years of sitting in port, the local authorities got permission from the courts to move the ammonia nitrate from the ship into the storage building. After years of sitting in the building and forgotten about, other items were stored like fireworks were stored in the same building. The fireworks caught fire causing the quick plume of smoke that was emitting from the building for several seconds before the major explosion of the ammonia nitrate. You can see the mini explosions of the fireworks which is the accelerate that exploded the ammonia nitrate. If you look at the real video, you can see multiple fireworks exploding at the building level. The iron rich color of the plume is the same color as the May 1988 Henderson Nevada explosion and it was ammonia perchlorate an oxidizer for rocket fuel.

3. A nuclear bomb explodes with it's plume soaring thousands of feet up into the atmosphere. The Beirut explosion plume excelled upwards to maybe 500 feet (152 Meters) and did not linger very long then dissipated. The concussion from the explosion is what did all the damage throughout Beirut.

4. Jim Stone’s erroneous statement that it was a NUKE, then why are there no articles and real news talking about radiation. NOT ONE WORD OF RADIATION.

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