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Anniversary of a disaster: Remembering the Texas City explosion that killed hundreds in April 1947
In mid-April 1947, a French freighter, the Grand Camp, docked at Texas City to take on a heavy load of ammonium nitrate fertilizer ... unimaginable happened: an explosion so powerful that it ...
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What we know about the Waco-area fertilizer plant explosion
Before Wednesday evening, the small town of West, Texas — a dozen ... building in Oklahoma City." Why was the explosion so massive? "The plant uses ammonium nitrate in fertilizer production ...