2nd Halifax Explosion

In 1942 many armaments were stored in Halifax many were from the USA which were leftovers from Lend-Lease on a particularly hot day a fire broke out in the area near the munitions. The fire was dispatched in the nick of time, but what if it wasn't? Obviously a big boom but many Atomic Scientists were using the original Halifax Explosion as basis for their research, would Halifax be a proto-Hiroshima?
 

Archibald

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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... :eek:

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...
 
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