The Biggest Explosion Before the Atomic Bomb
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Загружено: 2026-01-13
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The largest explosion before the atomic bomb—and it happened by accident.
In 1917, a city vanished in seconds and rewrote the rules of disaster science forever.
The Halifax Explosion remains the most powerful man-made blast in history before nuclear weapons. When two ships collided in Halifax Harbour, one of them carrying nearly 3,000 tons of high explosives, the result was a detonation so violent it flattened entire neighborhoods, triggered a tsunami, and blinded hundreds of people instantly. Over 2,000 were killed, and thousands more were injured or left homeless in seconds.
But this story isn’t just about destruction. The aftermath of Halifax became the first true scientific investigation of a large-scale industrial disaster. Researchers mapped debris, injuries, and blast patterns to create the foundations of modern explosion physics, safety engineering, and risk analysis. The same data was later used to understand bombing effects in World War II—and even nuclear blasts. Halifax didn’t just change a city. It changed how the world understands catastrophe.
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