Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda

[Peter Gutmann]

"Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> writes:

>*: A year or two ago someone posted about the blow up of Texas City back in
>the early 1950s. 

1947.

>Apparently, some kind of tanker hit something else and set of a chain
>reaction killing thousands and wiping out the town

After several earlier events (the biggest being Oppau in Germany in 1921,
which left a crater the size of a city block), fire safety folk were given an
incentive to discover the true chemistry of ammonium nitrate.  Google for
"Texas city" + Grandcamp (the ship carrying the ammonium nitrate) for the full
story.

Peter.