Deliberate "Halifax Explosions" = WWI nukes ?
I don't considers my idea as worth creating a new thread, so I use this one.
I was reading some documents on the Halifax explosion the other day.
Never realised before the biggest non-nuclear explosions went as big as four kilotons.
As big as a tactical nuke!
What about using ammonia/ munitions -loaded ships as "WWI nukes" ?
There was certainly some ships much bigger than the "Mont Blanc" hanging around.
Titanic sisterships come to mind...
let's says it's a one-off attempt; something like the "Aphrodite" aircrafts of WWII (the B-24 which killed Kennedy's brother)
Battle of Messines. On June 7, 1917 nineteen (of a planned twenty-one) huge mines — containing over 455 tonnes (1,000,000 lb) of
ammonal explosives — were set off beneath German lines on the Messines-Wytschaete ridge. Approximately 10,000 Germans were killed, and the explosion was heard as far away as London and
Dublin.
Maybe the combination of the above + Halifax explosion 8 months later give ideas to some crazy general...