Episode 18: Texas City Disaster
Today @oldmananders0n, @aliceavizandum, and @donoteat01 test the limits of what we can say about fertilizer-derived explosives on the internet.
here are the slides: https://youtu.be/AxA1vb6P2lU
here is the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod
vast majority of the info and images from the original report: http://www.local1259iaff.org/report.htm
other images:
john w. brown By Project Liberty Ship, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3264194
ammonium nitrate By Teravolt at en.wikipedia - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14151598
wilson b. keene By http://digital.lib.uh.edu/u?/p15195coll4,8, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11834216
burned-out cars By University of Houston Digital Library - University of Houston Digital Library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11834231
oil refinery on fire By Chemical safety and hazards investigation board - http://www.csb.gov/assets/news/image/BP_PLANT_EXPLOSION-1_lowres2.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19192207